#per

I consider myself to be a very fortunate person and to have led a very fortunate life. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#fortunate #i #led #life #myself

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#person #responsibilities #shoulder #them #who

I don't keep a diary and I throw away nearly all the paper I might have kept. I don't keep an archive. There's something worrying about my make-up that I try to leave no trace of myself apart from my plays. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#apart #away #diary #i #keep

I write out of my intellectual experience. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#i #i write #intellectual #out #write

The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and other matters - raising revenue to pay for things which are for all of us, and so on. That idea has turned turtle now. The state isn't any longer perceived as an institution which exists to serve us. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#any #defense #exists #idea #institution

I've made a promise to myself to be a 100% healthy person if nothing else. ↗

— Picabo Street

#else #healthy #healthy person #i #made

As a free person, I ought to be allowed if I'm dying to take something. ↗

— John Stossel

#dying #free #free person #i #ought

I owed Lewis one thing, at least. Once you had suffered the experience of presenting a case at one of his Monday morning conferences, no other public appearance, whether on radio, TV or the lecture platform, could hold any terrors for you. ↗

— Anthony Storr

#appearance #case #conferences #could #experience

I'm an American. I'm for prosperity. I've discovered, from 40 years of reporting, that what creates prosperity is limited government. ↗

— John Stossel

#creates #discovered #government #i #limited

People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world. ↗

— John Stossel

#discovery #fuel #innovation #own #people