#pro

Those who said I'm not an out-and-out goal-scorer are probably right. I always feel I could score more. ↗

— Wayne Rooney

#could #feel #i #i always #more

In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#british empire #brought #controlled #earth #empire

I have fought to protect those benefits that ensure better salaries for teachers across the Nation such as grants to pay off student loans and funding for Teach for America. Still, we must all do more to show our continued appreciation for our Nation's leading role models. ↗

— Solomon Ortiz

#america #appreciation #benefits #better #continued

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end. ↗

— George Orwell

#bring #chaos #connected #decay #end

Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever. ↗

— George Orwell

#books #constantly #exceptionally #exhausting #feeling

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right? ↗

— George Orwell

#any #appears #cannot #creed #draw

We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product. ↗

— Adam Osborne

#best #even #good #history #ibm

I had the closest thing I have ever had to an out-of-body experience lying in bed one morning. I turned on the 'Today' programme and item four on the news was: 'The shadow chancellor has ruled himself out of the leadership.' I lay there thinking that's interesting, then I realised it was me. ↗

— George Osborne

#chancellor #closest #closest thing #ever #experience

You know the illusion of the cheap money is over and now Britain has to go out there and graft and earn its way and create wealth and prosperity in a very competitive world. ↗

— George Osborne

#cheap #competitive #create #earn #go

There is something that Governments care for far more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through property that we shall strike the enemy. Be militant each in your own way. I incite this meeting to rebellion. ↗

— Emmeline Pankhurst

#each #enemy #far #governments #human