#ren

I only back people with track record who can execute ruthlessly and flawlessly... Real killers...no matter the industry or company geography ↗

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

#entrepreneur #killer #age

They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#philosophers #soul #wise #death

Scratch most feminists and underneath there is a woman who longs to be a sex object. The difference is that is not all she wants to be. ↗

— Betty Rollin

#feminists #longs #most #object #scratch

When the Republicans controlled the House from 1994 -2006, Democrats like Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, Henry Waxman Charlie Rangel, John Conyers and Rahm Emanuel weren't saying we need to move right to win. They stuck to their philosophy. And they fought against Reagan and they fought against the Bushes. And eventually they did win. ↗

— Ed Rollins

#barney #bushes #charlie #controlled #democrats

I wish I could change things for you, make it so this all doesn't have to hurt so much. But that's the point, isn't it? That one day we'll find that the pain we suffered was worth it. ↗

— Karen White

#the-lost-hours #change

In the early 1970s. 1971, '72. The rooms were closing down, record labels weren't signing acoustic acts any more. Although they had been pretty much been getting out of that for some time before that. ↗

— Dave Van Ronk

#acts #although #any #been #before

You become a parent, and your whole life becomes about worrying. You just worry constantly whether they'll be okay. And the idea that I'll be worried forever about them and what they do...I almost have a panic attack when I think about it. I'm worried, and I'm worried about having to worry so goddamn much. ↗

— Drew Magary

#worrying #life

92, '93, '94. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity or Death. ↗

— Hilary Mantel

#death

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#generation #rendezvous #this generation

Divine fires do not blaze each day, but an artist functions in their afterglow hoping for their recurrence. ↗

— Ned Rorem

#artist #blaze #day #divine #each