#me

These are challenging times at home and around the world. We will have to work together in a bipartisan spirit and with our international partners if we are going to achieve progress and peace now and for future generations. ↗

— Susan Collins

#around #bipartisan #challenging #challenging times #future

Well, first let me say that I think health care reform is important. It has to be a priority. And our system is broken. The Finance Committee bill is the best effort yet, due in large measure to the efforts of my colleague, Olympia Snowe, but it's not there yet. It falls short. ↗

— Susan Collins

#bill #broken #care #colleague #committee

I'm not a very fancy person. I've been a writer a long time, and right now 'The Hunger Games' is getting a lot of focus. It'll pass. The focus will be on something else. It'll shift. It always does. And that seems just fine. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#been #does #else #fancy #fine

I've just had the opportunity to see the finished film of 'The Hunger Games.' I'm really happy with how it turned out. I feel like the book and the film are individual yet complementary pieces that enhance one another. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#book #complementary #enhance #feel #film

The 'wisdom of the crowds' is the most ridiculous statement I've heard in my life. Crowds are dumb. ↗

— Drew Curtis

#dumb #heard #i #life #most

Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy? ↗

— Auguste Comte

#allowed #biology #chemistry #freely #men

When a writer becomes a reader of his or her own work, a lot can go wrong. It's like do-it-yourself dentistry. ↗

— William Collins

#dentistry #do-it-yourself #go #her #his

What's strange about the whole thing is that although it's riddled with nonsense, altogether it's true - Julie's told our story, mine and hers, our friendship, so truthfully. It is us. We even had the same dream at the same time. How could we have had the same dream at the same time? How can something so wonderful and mysterious be true? But it is. And this, even more wonderful and mysterious, is also true: when I read it, when I read what Julie's written, she is instantly alive again, whole and undamaged. With her words in my mind while I'm reading, she is as real as I am. Gloriously daft, drop-dead charming, full of bookish nonsense and foul language, brave and generous. She's right here. Afraid and exhausted, alone, but fighting. Flying in silver moonlight in a plane that can't be landed, stuck in the climb - alive, alive, ALIVE. ↗

— Elizabeth Wein

#reading #remembrance #dreams

Words like feminism or democracy scare me. They are words with barnacles on them, and you can't see what's underneath. ↗

— William Collins

#democracy #feminism #like #me #scare

Our children are counting on us to provide two things: consistency and structure. Children need parents who say what they mean, mean what they say, and do what they say they are going to do. ↗

— Barbara Coloroso

#consistency #counting #going #mean #need