#pile

Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

#action #again #always #become #democracy

When I'm 60, maybe, I'll look at my pile of papers and wonder, What really happened that year? ↗

— Christa McAuliffe

#i #look #maybe #papers #pile

Let's leave beside them in another pile all the injustices which exist in the northern state. ↗

— Martin McGuinness

#beside #exist #injustices #leave #northern

He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it. ↗

— Herman Melville

#been #burst #chest #down #felt

Italy has piled up huge public debt because the successive governments were too close to the life of ordinary citizens, too willing to please the requests of everybody, thereby acting against the interests of future generations. ↗

— Mario Monti

#against #because #citizens #close #debt

My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas. ↗

— Kary Mullis

#catalogues #christmas #give #let us #me

I'll be at the table, as I've been, willing to talk to any Republican who says, 'Look, my country is more important, this pile of bills is not going to go away, the challenges that we have is not going to disappear, we need to cross that divide.' I'm ready. I'm waiting. ↗

— Patty Murray

#away #been #bills #challenges #country

I've done a number of readings at poetry lounges in Vancouver and Los Angeles. I've compiled a book of poetry that's completed, and two others I'm working on. ↗

— Corin Nemec

#book #compiled #completed #done #i

Stargate by far is the top of the pile when it comes to Sci-Fi. The quality is great. They have really good writers, production design, lighting, wardrobe. ↗

— Corin Nemec

#design #far #good #great #lighting

Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie; the clouds were like light piles of cotton; and where the blue sky was visible, it wore a hazy and languid aspect. ↗

— Francis Parkman

#aspect #blue #blue sky #breath #clouds