#nat

I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that and it's pretty scary. Hope at least gives you the option of living. ↗

— Harry Nilsson

#believe #despair #desperation #eliminate #gives

If plan A doesn't work, the alphabet has 25 more letters - 204 if you're in Japan. ↗

— Claire Cook

#life-lesson #life

It is my express wish that in awarding the prizes no consideration be given to the nationality of the candidates, but that the most worthy shall receive the prize, whether he be Scandinavian or not. ↗

— Alfred Nobel

#candidates #consideration #express #given #most

We must draw on the unique strengths of the Japanese economy, seek an open and cooperative approach with our international partners, and intelligently exploit the promise of new growth areas. ↗

— Yoshihiko Noda

#areas #cooperative #draw #economy #exploit

We need a government that does not give in to a globalist agenda, an agenda I am now convinced seeks to bring American as a sovereign nation and the middle class to their knees. ↗

— George Noory

#am #american #bring #class #convinced

The 2008 election settled nothing, not even for a while. Our national politics are reflecting what appears to be going on geologically, on the bottom of the oceans and beneath the crust of the Earth: the tectonic plates are moving. ↗

— Peggy Noonan

#beneath #bottom #crust #earth #election

I think life without Coronation Street would be unthinkable. It's part of all our lives. ↗

— Michael Parkinson

#i #i think #life #lives #our

Going after the unknown is always fascinating, I think. It becomes part of your life, this desire to know. ↗

— Mark Oliphant

#always #becomes #desire #fascinating #going

The architect had not stopped to bother about columns and porticos, proportions or interiors, or any limitation upon the epic he sought to materialize; he had simply made a servant of Nature - art can go no further. ↗

— Lew Wallace

#art #nature #architecture

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