#oura

I'm now happily remarried to a good cook, which encourages me to be lazy. I like to think that I'm a new man, but perhaps I'm not. I offset it by doing the ironing, though. She has a small farm in the New Forest with a herd of cattle, so she serves up a steak and kidney pie made with her own beef. ↗

— Vince Cable

#cattle #cook #doing #encourages #farm

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#act #aloud #courageous #most #still

A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice. ↗

— James Callaghan

#advice #against #courage #expert #leader

The criteria for serving one's country should be competence, courage and willingness to serve. When we deny people the chance to serve because of their sexual orientation, we deprive them of their rights of citizenship, and we deprive our armed forces the service of willing and capable Americans. ↗

— Dianne Feinstein

#armed forces #because #capable #chance #citizenship

I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously. I treasure it in the sense that I believe it's a path of great courage. It can also be the path of the foolhardy and the compulsive. ↗

— Jane Campion

#believe #compulsive #courage #dangerously #ends

Never, never listen to anybody that try to discourage you. ↗

— Mariah Carey

#discourage #listen #never #try #you

In making policy designed with copyright in mind, you end up making decisions about whether other important technologies, such as privacy-enhancing or file-search technologies, should be encouraged or discouraged. A collision is happening between creativity and protecting IP. ↗

— Edward Felten

#between #collision #copyright #creativity #decisions

There used to be this feeling under Eisenhower and Kennedy and Roosevelt and Truman that government was a solution. Trust in the presidency fell precipitously under Johnson - real lows. And it's never come back. It's a trend that, if you're liberal, is really discouraging. ↗

— Robert Caro

#come #discouraging #eisenhower #feeling #fell

Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#cases #courage #cowardice #good #information

Although the war in which you fought took place more than half-a-century ago, your courage, your sacrifice and your patriotism reaches through the decades and inspires us today. ↗

— Mike Ferguson

#although #courage #decades #fought #inspires