#right

The tombstone is about the only thing that can stand upright and lie on its face at the same time. ↗

— Mary Wilson Little

#face #lie #only #same #stand

I really believe that's one of the many reasons that God had put me right in the middle of the Backstreet Boys. There are so many stars today that don't realize the impact they have on young people. Being a superstar is great, as long as you can be a positive role model. ↗

— Brian Littrell

#being #believe #god #great #had

Conservatives forget that citizenship is more than a thing to withhold from immigrants. Progressives forget it's more than a set of rights. ↗

— Eric Liu

#conservatives #forget #immigrants #more #progressives

From the right, you get demagogues shouting about brown-skinned anchor babies and clamoring to deport the undocumented. From the left, you get advocacy for the oppressed but otherwise, when it comes to national civic identity, mainly silence. ↗

— Eric Liu

#advocacy #anchor #babies #civic #comes

Many smart folks seem to think that if you just get your metaphors and messages right, you'll win. That if you start describing what you favor as a 'moral value' - 'affordable health care is a moral value' etc., - then you'll appeal to red-state voters. ↗

— Eric Liu

#affordable health care #appeal #care #describing #etc

Why should citizenship be a matter of birth? The premise held by those who want to end birthright citizenship is that some people deserve it and some do not - that the status shouldn't be handed out automatically. Frankly, that's a premise worth considering. ↗

— Eric Liu

#birth #birthright #citizenship #considering #deserve

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. ↗

— John Locke

#every man #himself #his #man #nobody

There is only one side of the market and it is not the bull side or the bear side, but the right side. ↗

— Jesse Livermore

#bull #market #only #right #right side

I'm interested in why people compromise when they shouldn't. It comes back to what V's about in a sense. We've all got ideals, but given the right circumstances, we'll forget about them and put them behind us. I'm very interested in why people do that. ↗

— David Lloyd

#back #behind #circumstances #comes #compromise

According to the standard model billions of years ago some little quantum fluctuation, perhaps a slightly lower density of matter, maybe right where we're sitting right now, caused our galaxy to start collapsing around here. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#ago #around #billions #caused #collapsing