#red

I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#after #artificial #away #bestowed #characters

I'm not convinced that what are traditionally considered to be male energies or qualities or female energies or qualities really have as much to do with gender as many people think they do. ↗

— Andrew Cohen

#convinced #energies #female #gender #i

Ladies and gentlemen, I wish I had better news for you but we are facing a storm that most of us have feared. This is a threat that we've never faced before. ↗

— Ray Nagin

#better #faced #facing #feared #gentlemen

It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#been #city #cut #defined #ever

Our Hispanic community needs to understand how important the Social Security system is for not only its retired citizens, but also its disabled workers. ↗

— Grace Napolitano

#citizens #community #disabled #hispanic #hispanic community

Nonetheless, to the extent that terrorists have come into our country or suspected or known terrorists have entered our country across a border, it's been across the Canadian border. There are real issues there. ↗

— Janet Napolitano

#been #border #canadian #come #country

I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition... Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location. ↗

— John Forbes Nash, Jr.

#became #been #choice #competition #either

I hope, when I stop, people will think that somehow I mattered. ↗

— Martina Navratilova

#i #mattered #people #somehow #stop

Jobs that cannot be delivered must never be promised. It's unfair to raise people's hopes that way. ↗

— Bill O'Reilly

#delivered #hopes #jobs #must #never

I actually thrive on all the challenges, and I don't feel like ADD has impaired my ability. ↗

— David Neeleman

#actually #add #challenges #feel #i