#rin

It's better to burn brightly for half as long than to be a dim lingering light. ↗

— Roland Gift

#brightly #burn #dim #half #light

During the past few years I have led a sometimes hard battle for German foreign policy. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

#during #few #foreign #foreign policy #german

If I feel I'm not influencing games, not scoring goals or making goals, then that's the time I'd pack it in. ↗

— Ryan Giggs

#games #goals #i #i feel #influencing

If I could read while I was driving, showering, socializing or sleeping, I would do it. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#driving #i #if i could #read #showering

I should just put it bluntly, because we're all sort of friends here now - it's exceedingly likely that my greatest success is behind me. Oh, so Jesus, what a thought! You know that's the kind of thought that could lead a person to start drinking gin at nine o'clock in the morning, and I don't want to go there. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#behind #bluntly #clock #could #drinking

I was a bartender for a long time, so I know how to make drinks, but I'm more likely to offer them than to have them. I think this is one of the reasons why I get to live longer than my great-grandmother did, and why I get to produce more writing than she did, and why my marriage isn't in dire straits. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#did #dire #drinks #get #how

That is who Barack Obama is - a person of admirable character - and that is who he has remained for me over these last four years. I have not agreed with his every decision, but never once have I seen him break his cool, lose his composure, or abandon his insightful perspective - even during the most serious and/or absurd national disasters. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#absurd #admirable #agreed #barack #barack obama

No change in the balance of political parties can alter the general determination that no class should be excluded from contributing to and sharing responsibility for the state. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

#balance #change #class #contributing #determination

We set up one rule in our house, which is, 'Guests of guests cannot bring guests.' That rule was required because that happened one weekend, and we finally said, 'Okay, you know what? That's a little too much.' ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#bring #cannot #finally #guests #happened

Although I was raised Jewish, my upbringing didn't include any formal religious education or training. ↗

— Melissa Gilbert

#any #education #formal #i #i was raised