#pent

Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety. ↗

— William Drummond

#bridle #cometh #destroy #guard #lest

I spent twelve years training for a career that was over in a week. Joe Namath spent one week training for a career that lasted twelve years. ↗

— Bruce Jenner

#i #joe #lasted #over #spent

We've seen more reform in the last year than we've seen in decades, and we haven't spent a dime yet. It's staggering how the Recovery Act is driving change. ↗

— Arne Duncan

#change #decades #dime #driving #haven

My dad was a carpenter and I would work with him during the summer and umpire on the nights I wasn't playing. ↗

— Jim Evans

#dad #during #him #i #nights

I have been surrounded by artists and paintings throughout my life. My father Ted Dyer is an artist, and from a very early age I have spent time painting and drawing. ↗

— John Dyer

#artist #artists #been #drawing #early

You know, if you look back in the 1930s, the money went to infrastructure. The bridges, the municipal buildings, the roads, those were all built with stimulus money spent on infrastructure. This stimulus bill has fundamentally gone, started out with a $500 rebate check, remember. That went to buy flat-screen TVs made in China. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#bill #bridges #buildings #built #buy

I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#lot #mortality #my own #own #spent

Why don't we stop the stimulus spending? There's still about $400 billion or $500 billion of the stimulus plan that has not been spent. Why don't we stop it? It's not working. ↗

— John Boehner

#been #billion #plan #spending #spent

I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin. ↗

— Olafur Eliasson

#berlin #cologne #first #germany #i

I've spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people perceive you. ↗

— Sam Elliott

#career #entire #entire career #horseback #i