#nation

I miss talking to you.' 'I can't imagine why. We haven't talked about anything particularly interesting in years.' 'I thought it was interesting. Perhaps I like talking about boring things with you. ↗

— Eloisa James

#imagination

That's because the International Olympic Committee has a policy of never replacing medals. ↗

— Mary Lou Retton

#committee #international #medals #never #olympic

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities. ↗

— Dr. Seuss

#brain #brain cells #cells #enables #end

When someone tells me "no," it doesn't mean I can't do it, it simply means I can't do it with them. ↗

— Karen E. Quinones Miller

#determination #inspiration #motivation #negativity #self-confidence

Gates got up, but not fast or jerkily, with the same slowness that had always characterized him. He wiped the sweat off his palms by running them lightly down his sides. As though he were going to shake hands with somebody. He was. He was going to shake hands with death. He wasn't particularly frightened. Not that he was particularly brave. It was just that he didn't have very much imagination. Rationalizing, he knew that he wasn't going to be alive anymore ten minutes from now. Yet he wasn't used to casting his imagination ten minutes ahead of him, he'd always kept it by him in the present. He couldn't visualize it. So he wasn't as unnerved by it as the average man would have been. ("3 Kills For 1") ↗

— Cornell Woolrich

#death #death-penalty #death-sentence #electric-chair #execution

To those peoples in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required - not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#hope #inspiration #international #justice #peace

A sense of entitlement is a cancerous thought process that is void of gratitude and can be deadly to relationships, businesses, and even nations. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#cancer #entitlement #gratitude #nations #relationships

A word is a lot. ↗

— Etgar Keret

#life #love #monologue #life

He who every morning plans the transactions of that day and follows that plan carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#procrastination #time-management #business

Since stepping down as laboratory director in 1999, I have devoted an increasing fraction of my time to international issues. I am involved with energy, environment, and sustainability issues, particularly as they involve new energy sources free of greenhouse gases. ↗

— Burton Richter

#devoted #director #down #energy #energy sources