#pose

I would not be opposed to devising a new system of pensions, in which one part was based on collective provision, but which also gave incentives for people to take out an additional, personal plan. ↗

— Jacques Delors

#also #based #collective #devising #gave

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost. ↗

— Chauncey Depew

#conformity #controversy #cost #counted #crackpot

At the end of time I want my art to stand up and my soul to bow down. ↗

— Rob Ryser

#existence #existential #identity #meaning #origin

To finalize, the purpose of an election is to hear the will of the people, not to fabricate votes. ↗

— Lincoln Diaz-Balart

#fabricate #hear #people #purpose #votes

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built. ↗

— James Dobson

#built #casual #children #foundation #future

I come from a very working-class background, so my family would have been downstairs in the past, as opposed to upstairs. People are often quite surprised to hear that, that I'm not actually posh. ↗

— Michelle Dockery

#background #been #class background #come #downstairs

We all have our paths in life we are supposed to follow to find who we are supposed to be, but it's not always a straight path. There is something inside of us that guides us, and if you are quiet and listen to it, you'll be all right. ↗

— Kyan Douglas

#find #follow #guides #inside #life

To conquer the command of the air means victory; to be beaten in the air means defeat and acceptance of whatever terms the enemy may be pleased to impose. ↗

— Giulio Douhet

#air #beaten #command #conquer #defeat

I think you end up doing the stuff you were supposed to do at the time you were supposed to do it. ↗

— Robert Downey, Jr.

#end #i #i think #stuff #supposed

Two months later at a party, Bernard pulled me into a closet and proposed. I said yes. ↗

— Shelley Duvall

#closet #i #into #later #me