#rep

In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#reputation #way

First, I prepare. Then I have faith. ↗

— Joe Namath

#first #i #prepare #then

Whatever kind of seed is sown in a field, prepared in due season, a plant of that same kind, marked with the peculiar qualities of the seed, springs up in it. ↗

— Guru Nanak

#field #kind #marked #peculiar #plant

The principal of unity and indivisibility of the republic are the essential reference points. ↗

— Giorgio Napolitano

#points #principal #reference #republic #unity

If we didn't have the Albanian entrepreneurial spirit and financial support from the diaspora, this stupid political class would have destroyed the country by now. ↗

— Fatos Nano

#country #destroyed #entrepreneurial #entrepreneurial spirit #financial

A Congressional Budget Office report released as recent as June 2004 says the system will be able to pay full benefits until 2052, and 80 percent after that. ↗

— Grace Napolitano

#after #benefits #budget #congressional #full

For people who have for been putting their hard-earned money into the system for years, the president's idea would replace their safety net with a risky gamble with no assurance of a stable return of investment. ↗

— Grace Napolitano

#been #gamble #idea #into #investment

And I am also here to say that if something were to happen, we are prepared to respond swiftly, to respond effectively, and to respond strongly. That is our tradition as a country. And that is a tradition that we will uphold, regardless of any circumstance because this nation is one that is very, very strong and, indeed, extraordinarily resilient. ↗

— Janet Napolitano

#am #any #because #circumstance #country

I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm. ↗

— Ogden Nash

#disarm #i #idea #man #overwhelm

OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us. ↗

— James Nasmyth

#before #begins #born #hereditary #history