#resent

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present. ↗

— Golda Meir

#cannot #does #erase #fit #merely

The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to re-imagine our history as a sure and steady march toward greatness. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#forget #golden #greatness #history #march

A jury of my countrymen, it is true, have found me guilty of the crime of which I stood indicted. For this I entertain not the slightest feeling of resentment towards them. ↗

— Thomas Francis Meagher

#crime #entertain #feeling #found #guilty

I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity. ↗

— Bette Midler

#definitely #high #i #invented #popularity

The women are at an advantage - we represent the buying power in this country. ↗

— Sandra Lee

#buying #country #power #represent #women

I happen to represent Enron here in Houston. We have many good corporate citizens here in Houston. Enron happened to have been one. ↗

— Sheila Jackson Lee

#citizens #corporate #enron #good #happen

People of color have a constant frustration of not being represented, or being misrepresented, and these images go around the world. ↗

— Spike Lee

#being #color #constant #frustration #go

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#bad #being #bird #cannot #decent

A lot of people resent that I've been in someone's life for 50 years. Why shouldn't people have an affection for me and what I've done? Didn't I have to be genuine for them to buy into what I did? There are children who grow up today who will not have that when they're 55 years old. With whom will they have it? Name an example for me. ↗

— Jerry Lewis

#been #buy #children #did #done

This republic represents the greatest basis for that universal socialist order, the creation of which is at the present time the historic task of the International Proletariat. ↗

— Karl Liebknecht

#creation #greatest #historic #international #order