#own

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#arrangement #business #called #derive #friendship

When I go to farms or little towns, I am always surprised at the discontent I find. And New York, too often, has looked across the sea toward Europe. And all of us who turn our eyes away from what we have are missing life. ↗

— Norman Rockwell

#always #am #away #discontent #europe

I'm the oldest antique in town. ↗

— Norman Rockwell

#i #oldest #town

Sister Virginia used to say, 'You'll be known by the company you keep.' ↗

— Michael Scheuer

#keep #known #say #sister #used

The planet's spinning a thousand miles an hour around this gigantic nuclear explosion while these people roll these machines with rubber tires over this hard surface that we've laid down over the planet so that we can easily move ourselves back and forth. ↗

— Joe Rogan

#back #down #easily #explosion #forth

The price of a commodity will never go to zero. When you invest in commodities futures, you're not buying a piece of paper that says you own an intangible piece of company that can go bankrupt. ↗

— Jim Rogers

#buying #commodities #commodity #company #futures

Brown v. Board helped unite us all, and gave us all great pride knowing we all are truly E Pluribus Unum - one people out of many. ↗

— Mike Rogers

#brown #gave #great #great pride #helped

Women and children were slaughtered by the Taliban. You are going to sit down and negotiate with these folks? They never lived up to an agreement. The Pakistanis tried in '08, the Russians tried it when they were there. George Bush tried it in '05. It has never worked. ↗

— Mike Rogers

#bush #children #down #folks #george

So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip. ↗

— Will Rogers

#family #gossip #live #parrot #sell

A massive state and federal effort, the likes of which we've never seen is going to be needed. We can do it for tsunami victims half a world away. We can do it for our own citizens. ↗

— Al Roker

#citizens #effort #federal #going #half