#pre

I think that people with differing points of view find common ground in 'Modern Family' is very flattering, and I'm appreciative of that. ↗

— Steven Levitan

#common #common ground #differing #family #find

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#ceased #christians #did #find #history

Things happen in American politics in the political center. If the President will meet us in the center, there are things we can accomplish. ↗

— Mitch McConnell

#american #american politics #center #happen #meet

It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which always held that if you were reasonably good at cricket, knew one or two Latin texts and a few zingy Oscar Wilde quotes for dinner parties, you were pretty much ready to go and run some outpost in Hindustan. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#amateur #british #brought #certainly #cricket

Quiet people, people who aren't given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words - they're also fun to play, but you find yourself needing a laser precision in those roles. Otherwise you just sort of stand around, looking slightly brain-dead. You worry about being uninteresting. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#also #around #being #economic #emotional

Self-preservation is the first law of nature. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#first law #law #nature #self-preservation

I'm pretty normal. ↗

— Jenna Bush

#normal #pretty

Unionization, as opposed to communism, presupposes the relation of employment; it is based upon the wage system and it recognizes fully and unreservedly the institution of private property and the right to investment profit. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#communism #employment #fully #institution #investment

All that schooling never prepares you for the reality of life. ↗

— Juliette Lewis

#never #prepares #reality #schooling #you

Freedom of religion is a principle that is central to our Nation's Declaration of Independence. Congress has taken this positive step to protect our freedom to express allegiance to America's flag and the ideals it represents. ↗

— Ron Lewis

#america #central #congress #declaration #express