#ops

What kind of crops do they raise in the towns? Only Grand Dukes, Bolsheviks and drunkards! ↗

— Ernest Poole

#crops #drunkards #dukes #grand #kind

When we save the rain forest, the polar bear, and Al Gore, we should party so hard that Canada calls the cops on us for noise. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#al gore #bear #calls #canada #cops

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny. ↗

— Colin Powell

#action #attains #chief #condition #depend

For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities. ↗

— Richard Powers

#awful #because #candy #closing #door

The problem for the Left, however, is that the moment it stops painting the Right as vile, it has to argue the issues. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#however #issues #left #moment #painting

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#beneficial #body #develops #grief #happiness

I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#bad #bad taste #been #believe #called

I was away from the front lines for a while this spring, living with other troops, and considerable fighting took place while I was gone. When I got ready to return to my old friends at the front I wondered if I would sense any change in them. ↗

— Ernie Pyle

#away #change #considerable #fighting #friends

To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination. ↗

— Quintilian

#boy #critical #develops #faculty #gives

I'm not the type who'll yell about my achievements from the rooftops. ↗

— Aishwarya Rai

#achievements #i #rooftops #type #who