#ows

Everyone knows about the substantive issues of concern, like federal health care, but very little is said about the process, the lack of accountability. ↗

— Justin Amash

#accountability #care #concern #everyone #federal

Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#always #betrayal #espionage #finding #give

People out there must be told about the self-loathing that follows rape and how it's the greatest breakage in divine law to mutilate themselves, as I have done. ↗

— Tori Amos

#divine #done #follows #greatest #how

We're never going to stop! Three hundred shows a year forever! ↗

— Trey Anastasio

#going #hundred #never #shows #stop

The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer. It insists that it cannot be affected by the traumas of the external world; it shows, in fact, that such traumas are no more than occasions for it to gain pleasure. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#humor

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#against #knows #man #stream #strength

I was always fascinated by science-fiction shows, shows like 'Star Trek' and 'Lost in Space.' ↗

— Michael P. Anderson

#fascinated #i #like #lost #science-fiction

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#first #first time #shows #someone #them

For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#arrived #been #exactly #fact #glamorous

The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority. ↗

— Lord Acton

#authority #before #both #country #deny