#ounce

The public conviction that a railroad linking the West and the East was an absolute necessity became so pronounced after the gold discoveries of '49 that Congress passed an act in 1853 providing for a survey of several lines from the Mississippi to the Pacific. ↗

— John Moody

#absolute necessity #act #after #became #congress

The day I was announced as CEO, I think the stock dropped another 20%. ↗

— Anne M. Mulcahy

#another #ceo #day #dropped #i

About four or five weeks after it was publicly announced I was no longer breastfeeding, I got a letter from the NHS saying they were being supportive of me, but basically, they were very disappointed I'd stopped. ↗

— Denise Van Outen

#after #announced #basically #being #disappointed

A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which they lived, which have afterwards, and, indeed, within a very short period, been found to be both possible and true. ↗

— Catherine Crowe

#afterwards #age #authorities #been #both

Charlton Heston announced again today that he is suffering from Alzheimer's. ↗

— Liz Smith

#alzheimer #announced #charlton #heston #suffering

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle. ↗

— Heraclitus

#cattle #eternal #fame #goal #like

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic. ↗

— Alexis Carrel

#absolute #absolute power #allows #belief #clear

We need not renounce the use of conventional force. We will be ready to repel any clear and present danger that poses a genuine threat to our national security and survival. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#clear #conventional #danger #force #genuine

I have a simple life. I mean, you just give me a drum roll, they announce my name, and I come out and sing. In my job I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing. ↗

— Tony Bennett

#come #contract #drum #give #give me

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh. ↗

— Lord Acton

#announced #catastrophe #certain #every #feel