#rat

There's this huge number of desperate people. ↗

— Lloyd Alexander

#huge #huge number #number #people

I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill. ↗

— Edward Appleton

#above #enthusiasm #even #i #professional

I don't really know much about pirates, or pirate culture. I'd be a contrarian pirate. ↗

— Todd Barry

#culture #i #know #much #pirate

I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad. ↗

— Tupac Shakur

#been #cold #i #people #rather

Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them. ↗

— Allen Tate

#conflicts #deals #does #fundamental #logically

My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While other kids were playing pedestrian war games, I'd be Horatius keeping the bridge. ↗

— Bernie Taupin

#ancient #ancient rome #bridge #could #eleven

Preemption is the right of any nation in order to preserve its National Security; however, preemptive war is a tactic, not a strategy. When used as a strategy preemption dilutes diplomacy, creates an atmosphere of distrust, and promotes regional instability. ↗

— Ellen Tauscher

#atmosphere #creates #diplomacy #distrust #however

Today's tax cuts provide yet another illustration of the Republicans' fiscally irresponsible economic policies that ignore the needs of America's middle class, students, and working families. ↗

— Ellen Tauscher

#another #class #cuts #economic #economic policies

You probably have to have redundant levee systems with canals in between them, like the Dutch have, to make sure that incoming water is channeled off to areas where you deal with it rather than have it drown you. ↗

— Billy Tauzin

#between #canals #channeled #deal #drown

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#consider #i #i see #me #mesh