#poo

As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#cheerfulness #discontent #failure #i #indeed

Just as we should never balance the budget on the backs of the poor, so it is an economic delusion to think you can balance it only on the wallets of the rich. ↗

— George Osborne

#balance #budget #delusion #economic #just

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish. ↗

— Ovid

#cast #chance #expect #fish #hook

I am a big soccer fan, and a very big Liverpool fan. ↗

— Clive Owen

#big #fan #i #i am #liverpool

Technology tools such as laptops are the kind of help that we need. A program that provides laptops for all youngsters would close a gap that most of us are not aware of, or will not admit to, which is a tremendous gap in the poor communities. ↗

— Major Owens

#aware #close #communities #gap #help

I'm an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools. ↗

— Al Pacino

#hollywood #i #live #people #pools

It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I would substitute for Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, whose work belongs to ravaged postwar Europe and whose ideas transfer poorly into the Anglo-American tradition. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#american tradition #belongs #brown #europe #i

Manchee comes outta the bushes and sits down next to me cuz I’ve stopped right there in the middle of a trail. He looks around to see what I might be seeing and then he says, ”Good poo, Todd.” ”I’m sure it was, Manchee.” I’d better not get another ruddy dog when my birthday comes. What I want this year is a hunting knife like the one Ben carries on the back of his belt. Now that’s a present for a man. “Poo,” Manchee’s says quietly. ↗

— Patrick Ness

#manchee #poo #funny

Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren't they entitled to a little bit of respect - the kids, the wives, the parents? ↗

— Carl Paladino

#bit #died #entitled #families #ground

The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#imitation #opponents #poor #process #tried