#own

He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below. ↗

— Lord Byron

#down #hate #look #mankind #must

Taxpayers have put more than $24 trillion on the line to resuscitate Wall Street after the economic meltdown of last year. With the help of this massive taxpayer support, the nation's largest banks are posting record profits. ↗

— Maria Cantwell

#banks #economic #help #largest #last

Towards sunset we had cleared down to the level of the 12th step, which was sufficient to expose a large part of the upper portion of a plastered and sealed doorway. ↗

— Howard Carter

#doorway #down #expose #had #large

When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God, but written down by human beings deprived of modern day knowledge. So there is some fallibility in the writings of the Bible. But the basic principles are applicable to my life and I don't find any conflict among them. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#any #applicable #basic #basic principles #beings

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. ↗

— Willa Cather

#hangs #lies #long #old #shabby

You need mystery. You actually do. I think that's what foreign women, French women in particular, are good at. There's still a sense that you need to keep some of the unknown because that's where the soul resides, or something. ↗

— Jason Clarke

#because #foreign #french #french women #good

The purpose behind terrorism is to instill fear in people - the fear that electrical power, for instance, will be taken away or the transportation system will be taken down. ↗

— Vinton Cerf

#behind #down #electrical #fear #instance

We don't have the capability today to put a human being in space of any kind, shape or form, which is absolutely, totally unacceptable when we got the greatest flying machine in the world sitting down at Kennedy in a garage there with nothing to do. ↗

— Gene Cernan

#any #being #capability #down #flying

Saddam Hussein has openly admitted to the rest of the world that he had weapons of mass destruction. He used those weapons to kill his own people. ↗

— Saxby Chambliss

#destruction #had #his #hussein #kill

I would consider all of the legislation which I have supported meaningless if I were to sit idly by, silent, during a period which may go down in history as an era when we permitted the curtailment of our liberties. ↗

— Dennis Chavez

#curtailment #down #during #era #go