#om

People in the U.S. like good baseball, whether you're on the home team or not. ↗

— Hideo Nomo

#good #home #like #people #team

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

There's a girl, Dad." He smiled a bit. "A girl." "She kinda hates me, and I kinda..." "Love her?" "I don't know. I don't think so. I mean...how do you know?" His smile grew wider. "When you're talking about her with your old dad because you don't know what else to do. ↗

— Jamie McGuire

#travis-maddox #beauty

If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks and I used it in a poem, but it's really not right for that poem, but I wanted it, that would be distorting. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#distorting #form #great #had #i

I don't know that I have any role models now that are fixed. Definitely my mom - she's the coolest. She's worked really hard her whole life and I just think she's got a great attitude. Moms just know so much it's so silly. ↗

— Larisa Oleynik

#attitude #coolest #definitely #fixed #got

If my mom reads that I'm grammatically incorrect I'll have hell to pay. ↗

— Larisa Oleynik

#hell #i #incorrect #pay #reads

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought. ↗

— Margaret Oliphant

#general #general rule #rule #sought #temptations

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

It was obviously a pretty hectic development schedule and we put a huge team on to it but it paid off because we continuously get complemented on the finished product. ↗

— Andrew Oliver

#complemented #continuously #development #finished #finished product

But you say you are conservative - eminently conservative - while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried? ↗

— George Haven Putnam

#against #conservatism #conservative #destructive #eminently