#nin

In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear. ↗

— Breyten Breytenbach

#clear #covert #even #governing #hiding

Steve and I saw eye to eye on the story and I got the part, but I think in the beginning it was due to my brother's instigation. So I owe him for that. ↗

— Beau Bridges

#brother #due #eye #got #him

I obviously take a lot of pride in what I do on the football field, because that has the ability to influence a lot of people. That puts smiles on people's faces. That gives people a pep in their step on Monday morning when they go back to work. ↗

— Drew Brees

#back #because #faces #field #football

Winning isn't worthwhile unless one has something finer and nobler behind it. ↗

— Amos Alonzo Stagg

#finer #nobler #something #unless #winning

We follow the rules laid out in the Bible for running our church. ↗

— William Brewster

#church #follow #laid #our #out

Every time I walk down one of those red carpets, you think I'd be used to it after all these years, but it's like it's happening for the first time. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#down #every #every time #first #first time

There's a lot to be said about what's happening to our ocean, big companies polluting it with their oil and all the raw garbage that's being spilled in there. ↗

— Lloyd Bridges

#being #big #big companies #companies #garbage

Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster. ↗

— William Throsby Bridges

#disaster #doing #first #first step #make

All unemployment compensation should be tied to a job training requirement. Now the fact is, 99 weeks is an associate degree. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#compensation #degree #fact #job #job training

When we say that Philosophy tries to clear up the meanings of concepts we do not mean that it is simply concerned to substitute some long phrase for some familiar word. ↗

— Charles D. Broad

#concepts #concerned #familiar #long #mean