#pat

I feel like giving myself a pat on the back. We can create history tonight. We can bid goodbye to 10 years of (Liberal-Conservative) government which has ground to a halt, and get a new government and a new majority in Denmark. ↗

— Helle Thorning-Schmidt

#bid #create #denmark #feel #get

No, the only things which do not bother me are the elements. I can overcome them without a fight. All one has to do to get the best of the elements is to stand pat and one will win. ↗

— William Howard Taft

#bother #elements #fight #get #i

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#emancipation #freedom #soil #tree

This is supposed to be a participatory democracy and if we're not in there participating then the people that will manipulate and exploit the system will step in there. ↗

— George Takei

#exploit #manipulate #participating #participatory #people

When you're kept by a patron you don't have to duke it out in the media marketplace for dollars and for readers. In some ways that's a blessing because it takes a lot of pressure off you. ↗

— David Talbot

#blessing #dollars #duke #kept #lot

It's like doctors can't save all their patients, but, on balance, Bain under Gov. Romney created well over 100,000 jobs, which is certainly more than has been created in the Obama administration because we're down over 500,000 over the last three-and-a-half years. ↗

— Jim Talent

#balance #because #been #certainly #created

There are a lot of people who think that's what's needed to be successful is always being right, always being careful, always picking the right path. ↗

— Amy Tan

#being #careful #lot #needed #path

Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself. ↗

— Kenzo Tange

#creative #itself #longer #participate #sure

We Orientals find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and darkness which that thing provides. ↗

— Junichiro Tanizaki

#darkness #find #itself #light #only

Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#enough #everything #god #i #like