#mon

They stood there, King of the Hill, Top of the Heap, Ruler of All They Surveyed, Unimpeachable Monarchs and Presidents, trying to understand what it meant to own a world and how big a world really was. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#monarchy #unlimited-power #leadership

Patience, grasshopper," said Maia. "Good things come to those who wait." "I always thought that was 'Good things come to those who do the wave,'" said Simon. "No wonder I've been so confused all my life. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#patience #simon #wit #life

In this life you've got to hope for the best, prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#life

To own the dominant, or only, newspaper in a mid-sized American city was, for many decades, a kind of license to print money. In the Internet age, however, no one has figured out how to rescue the newspaper in the United States or abroad. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#age #american #city #decades #dominant

Too many people spend money they earned..to buy things they don't want..to impress people that they don't like. ↗

— Will Rogers

#money #people #pride #will-rogers #life

I believe when life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade...and try to find someone whose life has given them vodka, and have a party. ↗

— Ron White

#life #party #life

All that running and getting nowhere, he thought. Story of my life. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#simon-lewis #life

Clearly,' said Luke, 'something's going on that I don't know about.' Simon looked over at him. 'Sometimes I think that's the motto of my life. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#luke-garroway #simon-lewis #life

and then I decided I was a lemon for a couple of weeks. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#ford #insanity #lemons #life

Shoot, I must have lived such a doggoned sheltered life as a normal, independent American up there in the Last Frontier, schooled with only public education and a lowly state university degree, because obviously I haven't learned enough to dismiss common sense. ↗

— Sarah Palin

#common-sense #offshore-drilling #public-education #united-states #education