#rat

My purpose is to make my narrative as truthful as possible. ↗

— George Armstrong Custer

#narrative #possible #purpose #truthful

You've got to stick at a thing, a particular thing, until you succeed.I feel that's the only way to succeed - by concentrating on something in particular. Once you know what you've got to do you will succeed, you will succeed. ↗

— Betty Cuthbert

#feel #got #i #i feel #know

So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born. ↗

— Edward Dahlberg

#consideration #creature #dies #given #imaginary

The independent girl is a person before whose wrath only the most rash dare stand, and, they, it must be confessed, with much fear and trembling. ↗

— Lou Henry Hoover

#confessed #dare #fear #girl #independent

There are no conditions to which a man cannot become used, especially if he sees that all around him are living in the same way. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#human-naturei #inspirational #inspirational

Immigration is a sensitive topic. ↗

— Mario Diaz-Balart

#sensitive #topic

If you have a big heart, you will live a large life. ↗

— Yvonne Jayne

#literature #philosophy #writing #life

(…) Real time is not a unitary strand distributing homogeneous units of past, present and future in a fixed empirical order, but is rather a complex, interactive, « thick » manifold of distinct yet integrated durations. p22 ↗

— Sanford Kwinter

#real #time #architecture

The Bush Administration claims there is a Social Security crisis only to distract Americans from its serious mismanagement of the federal budget. ↗

— Mark Dayton

#budget #bush #bush administration #claims #crisis

Similarly, establishing a firm timeline for bringing our troops home could accelerate the development of Iraqi security forces and deepen their commitment to defending their own country and their own government. ↗

— Peter DeFazio

#bringing #commitment #could #country #deepen