#miss

The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master. He supposes all his dependents to be utterly bereft of individual characters, intentions, or opinions, and is persuaded that he was born to supersede the necessity of their having any. If he were to make a discovery to the contrary, he would be simply stunned — would never recover himself, most likely, except to gasp and die. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#independence #individuality #leadership #submission #suppression

A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century. ↗

— Baron de Montesquieu

#day #liberties #lose #may #miss

Cuts in carbon emissions would mean significantly higher electricity prices. We think the American consumer would prefer not to be skinned by Obama's EPA. ↗

— Fred Upton

#american consumer #carbon #consumer #cuts #electricity

I missed New York. Every break I had from the series, I'd fly back to the East Coast just to get back onstage. ↗

— Bebe Neuwirth

#break #coast #east #east coast #every

A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission. ↗

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

#come #discoverer #great #great idea #great ideas

How often had she wondered what would have happened if she'd remained with Jonathan? Not often, but regularly over the years. It was impossible not to have imagined that rejected future, a life of many countries, of vast and enduring adventure, of tiny rooms and rental houses. It was the sense of missed opportunity that returned to her, frightening but real, overwhelmingly real. ↗

— Michael Stein

#missing #opportunity #reminiscing #age

These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five year mission... to boldly go where no man has gone before. ↗

— Gene Roddenberry

#boldly #enterprise #five #go #gone

Covering a Super Bowl is actually one of the easiest things we do because our most experienced people are there. We'll have 25,000 feet of film and there's no way you're going to miss anything. ↗

— Steve Sabol

#anything #because #bowl #covering #easiest

Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission - to make the world more open and connected. ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

#built #company #connected #created #facebook

That's kind of the mission statement for the label: to try to do great music that touches people's hearts. ↗

— Ricky Skaggs

#great music #hearts #kind #label #mission