#pro

We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best. ↗

— Anatole France

#best #people #reproach #subject #talking

Just because there is a problem doesn't mean that we have to solve it, if the cure is going to be more expensive than the original ailment. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#because #cure #expensive #going #just

Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send forth to labor, and teach their children to enter the workshops or handle the plow, and you will thus humble proud traitors. ↗

— Thaddeus Stevens

#children #enter #estates #forth #handle

I've always been proud of the fact that I can hold it together and I rarely break. It's a point of pride for me. ↗

— Justin Long

#been #break #fact #hold #i

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent. ↗

— Sophia Loren

#avid #difficult #drive #faith #further

Hopefully in 2011 the fans will get to see some fights that they want to see. Manny Pacquiao Vs. Floyd Mayweather needs to happen, and so does David Haye Vs. Wladimir Klitschko. The fans deserve to see fights that they want to see and not just the fights that the promoters want to see. ↗

— Emanuel Steward

#deserve #does #fans #fights #floyd

All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity. ↗

— Gordie Howe

#bilingual #english #hockey #hockey players #key players

It's as if our electric grid didn't even have fences around it. This is disgraceful what we do, and what we don't do, to protect the Internet. ↗

— Paul Vixie

#disgraceful #electric #even #fences #grid

Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas. ↗

— Charles Fillmore

#faith #great #great things #ideas #industrial

I want to be a matador in the bull market, but not so I can make a killing. Rather, I just want to wear flamboyant and form-fitting pants that emphasize my genitalia as I stroll down Wall Street. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#jarod-kintz #matador #provocative #strange #funny