#mo

Books are, let's face it, better than everything else. If we played Cultural Fantasy Boxing League, and made books go fifteen rounds in the ring against the best that any other art form had to offer, then books would win pretty much every time. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#culture #humor #love-of-reading #reading #sports

Mothers are inscrutable beings to their sons, always. ("The Higgler") ↗

— A.E. Coppard

#love #mother #mothers #son #sons

Political leaders can help change the psychological climate which affects the quality of relationships among people. ↗

— Ehud Olmert

#among #change #climate #help #leaders

This is just what I have thought when I have seen slaves at work - they seem to go through the motions of labor without putting strength into them. They keep their powers in reserve for their own use at night, perhaps. ↗

— Frederick Law Olmsted

#i #into #just #keep #labor

With regard to the moral and religious condition of the slaves, I cannot, either from what I observe, or from what is told me, consider it in any way gratifying. ↗

— Frederick Law Olmsted

#cannot #condition #consider #either #gratifying

On almost anything someone does in the computer business, you can go back in the literature and prove someone had done it earlier. ↗

— Ken Olsen

#anything #back #business #computer #does

I was captain and should have set the example. I would lift a minimum of weights. Mine was natural physical strength. I always thought quickness and agility were much more important. ↗

— Merlin Olsen

#always #captain #example #i #i always

Clearly, a stable, unified and democratic Iraq cannot be achieved militarily by the U.S. ↗

— John Olver

#cannot #clearly #democratic #democratic iraq #iraq

The industrialization of China alone would increase by 90 percent the concentration of CO2 in our atmosphere and would at least increase the atmospheric CO2 by at least another 100 parts per million. ↗

— John Olver

#another #atmosphere #atmospheric #china #co2

Life's too short, drive it like ya stole it! ↗

— Debra L. Hartmann

#humor #inspirational-attitude #writer #attitude