#placed

To be gay is nothing to be proud of. It's in how you are gay that you have something to be proud of, considering the obstacles placed in your path if you are gay. ↗

— Dan Savage

#gay #how #nothing #obstacles #path

Nothing is more pleasant than to see a pretty woman, her napkin well placed under her arms, one of her hands on the table, while the other carries to her mouth, the choice piece so elegantly carved. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#carries #carved #choice #hands #her

Half of Google's revenue comes from selling text-based ads that are placed near search results and are related to the topic of the search. Another half of its revenues come from licensing its search technology to companies like Yahoo. ↗

— Eric Schmidt

#another #come #comes #companies #google

Of what value is a mind when placed in the brain of a coward? If mind is a gift of God to man for his use, let him use it. A mind is not in use when doing no good. ↗

— Andrew Taylor Still

#coward #doing #gift #god #good

When people get placed upon a pedestal - when they start chasing after that person on the pedestal - they become mannequin-like. ↗

— Ichiro Suzuki

#become #chasing #get #pedestal #people

A lot of these American actors have this - in my view - misplaced view that they have to look like Action Man. The trouble is, they all run the risk of being interchangeable. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#american #american actors #being #interchangeable #like

The assertion that "all men are created equal" was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#britain #created #declaration #effecting #equal

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess. ↗

— Martin Luther

#hands #held #i #lost #many

My table is now brightly, now dimly lighted. Its temperature varies. It may receive an ink stain. One of its legs may be broken. It may be repaired, polished, and replaced part by part. But, for me, it remains the table at which I daily write. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#broken #daily #dimly #i #ink

In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that became rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable opinion. But it was wrong. ↗

— John Major

#blocks #britain #built #communities #destroyed