#om

I've come to accept that the life of a frontrunner is a hard one, that he will suffer more injuries than most men and that many of these injuries will not be accidental. ↗

— Pele

#accidental #come #hard #i #injuries

But she woke up just then, and in the moonlight covered herself with a blanket. She smiled at him drowsily and called him "Yero, my hero," and that melted his heart. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#life

I have newspapers coming to me and saying, 'Can we get in on the TARP?'. ↗

— Nancy Pelosi

#get #i #me #newspapers #saying

Social Security has never failed to pay promised benefits, and Democrats will fight to make sure that Republicans do not turn a guaranteed benefit into a guaranteed gamble. ↗

— Nancy Pelosi

#benefits #democrats #failed #fight #gamble

The United States government can indict you on something, and now you've got to prove your innocence. And that's not the Constitution of the United States. ↗

— Leonard Peltier

#got #government #indict #innocence #now

This town of churches and dreams; this town I thought I would lose myself in, with its backward ways and winding roads leading to nowhere; but, I found myself instead. -Magic in the Backyard (excerpt from American Honey) ↗

— Kellie Elmore

#country #finding-yourself #inspiring #journey #literature

Even when I lecture per se, I am a joke comedian, I can do the voices. ↗

— Dave Pelzer

#comedian #even #i #i am #i can

An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad. ↗

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

#destroy #dictum #drive #first #him

We had an EP out and all of a sudden we find record companies are interested in us, and we're thinking, 'Oh, that's really nice, but we don't think we're ready for it.' ↗

— Debbi Peterson

#find #had #interested #nice #oh

Compassion is a verb. ↗

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

#compassion