#ric

Our Founders always wondered about how long it would last. The price of liberty is everlasting vigilance. You've got to be on your guard every minute or you will lose it. ↗

— Michael Novak

#always #everlasting #every #founders #got

When I walk up on that shore in Florida, I want millions of those AARP sisters and brothers to look at me and say, 'I'm going to go write that novel I thought it was too late to do. I'm going to go work in Africa on that farm that those people need help at. I'm going to adopt a child. It's not too late, I can still live my dreams.' ↗

— Diana Nyad

#africa #brothers #child #dreams #farm

I'm not saying that there weren't other inherent problems with the score that couldn't have been overcome with a bit of remixing, but why did they ask me to do it, and why did Griffin ask me to do it this way, for a film that had nothing to do with American vernacular? ↗

— Michael Nyman

#ask #been #bit #did #film

Tom Cruise's attorney said he is going to sue anyone who claims he is gay. In a related story, Ricky Martin's attorney has been hospitalized for exhaustion. ↗

— Conan O'Brien

#attorney #been #claims #cruise #exhaustion

To me you are a work of art, and I would give you my heart - that's if I had one. ↗

— Morrissey

#love #lyrics #music #art

I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little. ↗

— Dan O'Brien

#back #concerned #did #held #i

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#attachment #concerned #even #fiction #fiction writer

Going up the walls doing somersaults, that trick took a couple of days. ↗

— Donald O'Connor

#days #doing #going #took #trick

The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#carry #feeling #lonely #nothing #price

Historically courts in this country have been insulated. We do not look beyond our borders for precedents. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#beyond #borders #country #courts #historically