#pre

Before I proposed to my now-wife, I was understandably nervous. My father suggested that I take stock of all of my experiences and relationships with women, from my earliest memories to present day, and see if I had learned anything that might inform my decision. ↗

— Justin Halpern

#before #day #decision #earliest #earliest memories

If ask 100 Arkansans about the phrase, 'the public option,' or 'a public option,' you'll get 100 different impressions about what that means. ↗

— Bill Halter

#ask #different #get #impressions #means

Every phenomenon of nature was a word, - the sign, symbol and pledge of a new, mysterious, inexpressible but all the more intimate union, participation and community of divine energies and ideas. ↗

— Johann Georg Hamann

#divine #energies #every #ideas #inexpressible

I don't really like groups that make the same statement over and over again. It's good, but kind of predictable. ↗

— Martin Fry

#good #groups #i #kind #like

We are so lucky Americans are impressive with what they're willing to give. We get bashed too much. And, so many young people in this country give so much. They're not all gang bangers. ↗

— Jami Gertz

#country #gang #get #give #impressive

Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object. ↗

— Northrop Frye

#culture #destroy #essential #forms #idolatry

In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented. ↗

— Northrop Frye

#conventional #copyright #day #disguised #distinctive

I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#any #bangkok #completely #did #ever

In the name of the United States and President Bush, I want to thank the Mexican people, President Fox and his government for their friendship. ↗

— Tony Garza

#fox #friendship #government #his #i

I fought back, got injured again and I had to have another operation. I got down and depressed and I think I was drinking more than I should. Well, I know I was. ↗

— Paul Gascoigne

#another #back #depressed #down #drinking