#orr

As horrific as this impact has been on my constituents, it is only a small part of the overwhelming destruction covering 90,000 square miles of the Gulf Coast. ↗

— Jo Bonner

#coast #constituents #covering #destruction #gulf

It felt as if my body was, like, literally betraying me because I went from a very athletic, straight-up-and-down little kid to a very curvaceous woman, and it was just horrifying to me. ↗

— Chastity Bono

#because #betraying #body #felt #horrifying

When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals. ↗

— Bono

#associates #commodities #corrupt #government #hoard

Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it. ↗

— Sonny Bono

#cling #die #else #fame #get

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength. ↗

— Corrie Ten Boom

#does #empties #empty #sorrow #strength

The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event. ↗

— Daniel J. Boorstin

#crime #event #last #refuge #spontaneous

One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#concept #confuses #corrupts #ethics #evil

Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It's because I'm not quite an atheist and it worries me. There's that little bit that holds on: 'Well, I'm almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.' ↗

— David Bowie

#always #atheist #because #been #bit

Pull the good out of it and not worry about the drawbacks. ↗

— Chris Squire

#drawbacks #good #out #pull #worry

We need not worry so much about what man descends from - it's what he descends to that shames the human race. ↗

— Hal Boyle

#descends #human #human race #man #much