#pin

I'm of Filipino, Spanish, and Chinese descent, and was raised on Hawaii. ↗

— Tia Carrere

#descent #filipino #hawaii #i #raised

To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with. ↗

— Angela Carter

#contend #future #here #hopes #hypothesis

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness. ↗

— Queen Victoria

#doubtful #far #happiness #i #i think

I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#although #brought #censure #god #happiness

Facebook is really about communicating and telling stories... We think that people can really help spread awareness of organ donation and that they want to participate in this to their friends. And that can be a big part of helping solve the crisis that's out there. ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

#awareness #big #communicating #crisis #donation

After years of doing it, you learn the difference between your ego and your opinion. When you're married you have to cut through that. ↗

— Dan Castellaneta

#between #cut #difference #doing #ego

Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They're keeping up with their friends and family, but they're also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They're connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It's almost a disadvantage if you're not on it now. ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

#almost #also #audience #brand #building

The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#country #dissent #eliminate #entirely #ever

Another part of the global war on terrorism that Canada and the United States are working on together is in helping failed states, states like Afghanistan, where people have no voice. ↗

— Paul Cellucci

#another #canada #failed #global #global war

From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#dried #him #his #judgment #little