#or

The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#come #corruption #country #employee #government

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles. ↗

— Thomas Browne

#may #mistaken #pebbles #rough #sometimes

Somewhere, things must be beautiful and vivid. Somewhere else, life has to be beautiful and vivid and rich. Not like this muted palette -a pale blue bedroom, washed out sunny sky, dull green yellow brown of the fields. Here, I know ever twist of every road, every blade of grass, every face in this town, and I am suffocating. ↗

— Lisa Ann Sandell

#beautiful #dull #face #grass #life

An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all. ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#great #greatness #ignorance #impossible #make

Of course, the psychological part, the tactics, is very important. ↗

— Sergei Bubka

#important #part #psychological #tactics #very

How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital. ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#creatures #desolate #dues #earth #fellowship

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked. ↗

— Robert Browning

#before #learns #old #perhaps #rather

I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God. ↗

— Robert Browning

#even #fight #forgotten #give #god

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice. ↗

— Robert Browning

#bad #being #black #business #choice

Chemistry cannot be manufactured or forced, so Wild Flag was not a sure thing, it was a 'maybe,' a 'possibility.' But after a handful of practice sessions, spread out over a period of months, I think we all realized that we could be greater than the sum of our parts. ↗

— Carrie Brownstein

#cannot #chemistry #could #flag #forced