#ram

Rogerson," I asked him sweetly as we sat watching a video in the pool house, "where would I find the pelagic zone?" "In the open sea," he said. "Now shut up and eat your Junior Mints. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#fiction #inspirational #romance #inspirational

Your mother won a special reward," she told me, "because everyone had a head in her pictures. We all applauded. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#fiction #inspirational #romance #inspirational

How would your life be different if…You stopped validating your victim mentality? Let today be the day…You shake off your self-defeating drama and embrace your innate ability to recover and achieve. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#drama #inspirational #life #self-empowerment #victim-mentality

Forming grammatically correct sentences is for the normal individual the prerequisite for any submission to social laws. No one is supposed to be ignorant of grammaticality; those who are belong in special institutions. The unity of language is fundamentally political. ↗

— Gilles Deleuze

#freedom #grammar #individuality #language #politics

It's traditionally not federal policy to fund state and local salaries. It's done sometimes on a temporary basis or a grant basis. But it's not often done. And the reason is clear, because the federal government can't continue in perpetuity these programs. ↗

— Jim Talent

#because #clear #continue #done #federal

The use and threat of force, when world peace is not in danger, are no longer valid frames of reference for achieving the ends sought today by sovereign nations. ↗

— Carlos Salinas

#danger #ends #force #frames #longer

People don't really understand, but having people stare, and point, and take pictures, even if it is in a positive framework, is quite isolating; there's no two ways about it. You feel a little bit, you know, freakish. ↗

— Emma Watson

#bit #even #feel #framework #having

My business is the analytical framework. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#business #framework

I'm very open and never write what I'm going to say. Speeches bore everybody else. I have to freestyle. Every time, from one program to another, everything changes and I improvise. ↗

— Marjane Satrapi

#bore #changes #else #every #every time

If the white man wants to hold on to it, let him do so; but the Negro, so far as he is able, should develop and carry out a program of his own. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

#carry #develop #far #him #his