#mm

God must hate common people, because he made them so common. ↗

— Philip Wylie

#common #common people #god #hate #made

Do you know what it's like to love someone so much, that you can't see yourself without picturing her? Or what it's like to touch someone, and feel like you've come home? What we had wasn't about sex, or about being with someone just to show off what you've got, the way it was for other kids our age. We were, well, meant to be together. Some people spend their whole lives looking for that one person. I was lucky enough to have her all along. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#completeness #consummate #couples #age

He watched their faces, and he knew each meant desperately what she said because they loved each other, and deep inside surely each knew the words were false, that the true words were those unspoken. ↗

— Margaret Craven

#communication

Raising taxes doesn't create jobs, and this is a common sense thing. Washington doesn't get it. They believe if they take more money and send it to Washington, D.C. somehow they create wealth. It doesn't work. ↗

— Kevin Yoder

#common #common sense #create #get #jobs

Where else but cyberspace does the introvert have the opportunity to start in our comfort zone of written communication and talk later? ↗

— Laurie Helgoe

#communication

Do you write novels?" I said. "Novels, Lord no," she said. "I can't even stay married. ↗

— Pam Houston

#commitment #humor #writing #art

Almost a century has passed since Japan first entered the world community by concluding a treaty of amity with the United States of America in 1854. ↗

— Shigeru Yoshida

#america #amity #century #community #concluding

We are determined that our nation shall cease to be a burden on other countries but shall contribute positively to world prosperity, while observing fully the fair trade practices in international commerce. ↗

— Shigeru Yoshida

#cease #commerce #contribute #countries #determined

I have committed my life to helping the poor, and I believe that if more companies followed Wal-Mart's lead in providing opportunity and savings to those who need it most, more Americans battling poverty would realize the American dream. ↗

— Andrew Young

#american dream #battling #believe #committed #companies

I've learned over a period of years there are setbacks when you come up against the immovable object; sometimes the object doesn't move. ↗

— Coleman Young

#come #i #immovable #learned #move