#rand

When you're a dancer, you start with the basics. You don't all of a sudden do a grand jete and pirouette. You start with first position, second, third. ↗

— Rita Rudner

#dancer #first #grand #position #second

My grandmother was a very tough woman. She buried three husbands and two of them were just napping. ↗

— Rita Rudner

#grandmother #husbands #just #napping #she

Life would be a great deal easier if dead things had the decency to remain dead. ↗

— Doug MacLeod

#humour #random #sinister #funny

Even now, when I try and think of band names just randomly, I'm so thankful that 'fun.' is the name of the band. I never really think twice about it. It is so simple and so easy. ↗

— Nate Ruess

#band #easy #even #even now #fun

If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#decisions #guidance #lacks #policy #random

I didn't know where this stuff was coming from - all of a sudden I was a little magickal sprite, bonding with my stone, feeling my earth roots, la la la... All I can is describe the way it felt. And that was how it felt. So sue me. Was I swaying? I felt like I might be swaying. ↗

— Cate Tiernan

#funny

I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself. ↗

— Samuel Rutherford

#benefited #errand #god #gotten #i

The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand. The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#ayn #ayn rand #collectivism #credit #fight

If somebody is going to try to paste a person's view on epistemology to me, then give me Thomas Aquinas. Don't give me Ayn Rand. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#ayn rand #epistemology #give #give me #going

Seven hundred and sixteen billion dollars, funneled out of Medicare by President Obama. An obligation we have to our parents and grandparents is being sacrificed, all to pay for a new entitlement we didn't even ask for. The greatest threat to Medicare is Obamacare, and we're going to stop it. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#being #billion #dollars #entitlement #even