#pal

We are now paying the cost of people who move jobs overseas as taxpayers, and people are appalled when they hear that. ↗

— Debbie Stabenow

#cost #hear #jobs #move #now

For one thing, everyone there is so clever. Do they think me dull? Perhaps I should assure them that our goats enjoyed listening to me for hours on end. I am certain their bleats meant "Do go on, Miri, darling. You are immensely entertaining." Your immensely entertaining sister, Miri ↗

— Shannon Hale

#palace-of-stone #sister #funny

In practice, the copyright system does a bad job of supporting authors, aside from the most popular ones. Other authors' principal interest is to be better known, so sharing their work benefits them as well as readers. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#authors #bad #benefits #better #copyright

An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#actor #create #hand #his #palm

I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine. ↗

— Parker Stevenson

#blue #california #coast #dark #find

My parents moved to American Samoa when I was three or four years old. My dad was principal of a high school there. It was idyllic for a kid. I had a whole island for a backyard. I lived there until I was eight years old and we moved to Santa Barbara. ↗

— Eric Stoltz

#backyard #barbara #dad #eight #four

If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears. ↗

— Anthony Storr

#end #fewer #happiness #look #marriage

Our fifty principal cities contain 39.3 per cent of our entire German population, and 45.8 per cent of the Irish. Our ten larger cities only nine per cent of the entire population, but 23 per cent of the foreign. ↗

— Josiah Strong

#cities #contain #entire #fifty #foreign

Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#animal #called #detest #forth #hate

I believe the government of the United States should re-examine its policies in the Middle East and adopt a more balanced stance toward the Palestinian cause. ↗

— Al-Waleed bin Talal

#balanced #believe #cause #east #government