#pro

Well, I think the president is going to do well in terms of his influence for positive change here in the Congress, making sure that we don't overspend, making sure that we spend for only those programs that are justified. ↗

— Thad Cochran

#congress #going #here #his #i

I’ve often wondered why more science textbooks don’t tell teenagers that the only thing sharks like to eat more than fish, are dead prostitutes. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#dead #fish #funny #humor #prostitutes

To look for some kind of insight or meaning in pop songs is not really - well there's plenty of other places where you should probably look first before you start looking for it in a pop song. I guess it was just because I was really into music as a child, and I wanted it to say more. It was the thing, wasn't it? And now it isn't. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#before #child #first #guess #i

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#aversion #devotion #friends #given #i

My mother's very proud of the name she gave me. She thought it sounded rhythmically better. It doesn't really make a difference to me what people call me, but since my mother calls me Holly Marie when she's angry, I prefer just my first name. ↗

— Holly Marie Combs

#better #call #calls #difference #first

It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#atomic #biological #human #inheritance #interests

Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor. ↗

— Barber Conable

#earn #income #less #only #own

The methods that EPA introduced after 1970 to reduce air-pollutant emissions worked for a while, but over time have become progressively less effective. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#become #effective #emissions #epa #introduced

The wave of new productive enterprises would provide opportunities to remedy the unjust distribution of environmental hazards among economic classes and racial and ethnic communities. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#classes #communities #distribution #economic #enterprises

Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug. ↗

— Bill Condon

#people #problems #rug #some #some people