#ow

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#alive #been #certainly #grand #grand thing

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks. ↗

— Edward Koch

#art form #beautifully #big #canvas #deals

I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#because #grow #i #married #me

I don't write any of my material down. I like to improvise and be spontaneous. ↗

— Dane Cook

#down #i #improvise #like #material

There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#does #evils #free #free will #god

I believe we have become paralyzed, paralyzed by our desire to be loved. Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times. ↗

— Chris Christie

#become #believe #country #desire #emotions

I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#borrowed #bother #come #go #i

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#how #just #looking #love #much

I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused. ↗

— Rachel Field

#been #confused #discontent #easily #had

A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime. ↗

— Chris Christie

#another #benefit #benefits #care #career