#pre

I don't mind paying the taxes I pay, which is pretty considerable. ↗

— Bill Bennett

#i #mind #pay #paying #pretty

I think anybody with an insecurity, which is everyone, appreciates the fact that it's much easier to be a predator than it is to be prey. ↗

— James Van Der Beek

#appreciates #easier #everyone #fact #i

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation. ↗

— Ludwig van Beethoven

#jewel #most #nation #poet #precious

You can't really pretend something is rosier than it is and expect people to buy it. ↗

— James Van Der Beek

#expect #people #pretend #really #something

Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations. ↗

— Gordon B. Hinckley

#defeat #destroy #entire #everyone #families

See, I think if it just became who's sleeping with whom, then there's no reason to prefer one party over the other, 'cause the truth is we're all sinners. ↗

— Paul Begala

#cause #i #i think #just #no reason

Again and again, I've seen Bush turn a blind eye as his henchmen have leveled zealous attacks against his political enemies - assaults which the president himself has sometimes directly encouraged. ↗

— Paul Begala

#against #assaults #attacks #blind #blind eye

Chronocanine Envy: Sadness experienced when one realized that, unlike one's dog, one cannot live only in the present tense. As Kierkegaard said, "Life must be lived forward. ↗

— Douglas Coupland

#present-moment #time #life

Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in. ↗

— Brendan Behan

#james #james joyce #joyce #judge #left

The difference between the extras here and in France is the French extras read books. Actually, they hide the book and pretend that they're acting. Here, you can see everybody wants his break. ↗

— Berenice Bejo

#actually #between #book #books #break