#pass

If everyone in the world sat quietly at the same time, closed their eyes and concentrated as hard as they could on peace and goodwill, all the killing and cruelty in the world would continue. And probably increase. ↗

— George Carlin

#funny #humor #peace #funny

I think there's a lot to learn from Rockefeller on how to pass legislation. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#i #i think #learn #legislation #lot

I continue to have a special pride and passion for AOL, and I strongly believe that AOL - once the leading Internet company in the world - can return to its past greatness. ↗

— Steve Case

#believe #company #continue #greatness #i

In the end, the American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don't always cross the finish line in the span of one generation. But each generation passes on to the next the fruits of their labor. ↗

— Julian Castro

#american #american dream #cross #dream #each

It isn't very nice to admit, but domestic violence has its uses. So raw and unleashed, it tears away the veil of civilization that comes between us as much as it makes life possible. A poor substitute for the sort of passion we like to extol perhaps, but real love shares more in common with hatred and rage than it does with geniality or politeness. ↗

— Lionel Shriver

#passion #tear #veil #violence #life

If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#aside #breeding #coarse #contempt #days

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#another #generation #passes #simply #society

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#evil #good #labor #passes #pleasure

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along! ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#doing #done #good #good idea #i

Jurors want courtroom lawyers to have some compassion and be nice. ↗

— Johnnie Cochran

#compassion #courtroom #jurors #lawyers #nice