#na

You would like me to say that the veil will be ripped from the voters' eyes sometime between now and November, thereby restoring the proper version of Democracy to the House and Senate. I won't say that, of course. The simple reason is, I don't know. ↗

— Gwen Ifill

#course #democracy #eyes #house #i

We oppose the reactionary policies of the U.S. government but we do not oppose the American people. We want to have many good friends in the United States. ↗

— Kim Jong Il

#american people #friends #good #good friends #government

Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.... ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#identity #nation #nationalism #politics #political

What is poetry which does not save nations or people? ↗

— Czeslaw Milosz

#nations #people #poetry #save #which

It is my opinion that everything must be based on a simple idea. And it is my opinion that this idea, once we have finally discovered it, will be so compelling, so beautiful, that we will say to one another, yes, how could it have been any different. ↗

— John Archibald Wheeler

#any #based #beautiful #been #compelling

It's time to stop following your dreams and time to start chasing them! ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#determination #dreams #procrastination #dreams

My school friends are really understanding and still want to hang out with me. Ever since I was in sixth grade, I was at the gym every day to work out while my friends were getting their nails done or going to the mall. I used to feel left out, but I don't anymore. ↗

— Aly Raisman

#day #done #ever #every #every day

The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases. ↗

— Edward Jenner

#diseases #him #man #nature #originally

Being part of the natural world reminds me that innocence isn't ever lost completely; we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it. ↗

— Jewel

#completely #ever #goodness #innocence #just

A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate. ↗

— Baroness Orczy

#beings #creatures #crowd #ear #eye