#rio

I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast. ↗

— Colin Firth

#biggest #coast #east #east coast #exceptions

The situation in Iraq is dangerous but the regional situation is also very complicated and precarious. ↗

— Joschka Fischer

#complicated #dangerous #iraq #precarious #regional

The United States is our most important ally. They helped us many times. Without the United States, the unification or German democratisation after the Nazi period would have been much more complicated, or almost impossible. ↗

— Joschka Fischer

#ally #almost #been #complicated #german

All things deteriorate in time. ↗

— Virgil

#deteriorate #things #time

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#curious #display #drunk #inhibitions #insane

I live for the Red Sox. I thoroughly enjoy them. For whatever reason, baseball has been a lot more fun for me in recent years. I loosely follow the Patriots and I root for them. I loosely follow the Celtics and then it gets to playoff time and I don't miss a game. Same with the Bruins. I'm not the diehard fan anymore. ↗

— Doug Flutie

#baseball #been #diehard #enjoy #fan

The whole drive of western culture, the part of it which is serious, is towards an extreme objectification. It's carried to the point where the human subject is treated almost as if it's dirt in the works of a watch. ↗

— Henry Flynt

#carried #culture #dirt #drive #extreme

One often has need of one, inferior to himself. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

#inferior #need #often

My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era. ↗

— Ken Follett

#favorite #fourth #i #ii #middle

Treat everyone with respect and kindness. Period. No exceptions. ↗

— Kiana Tom

#exceptions #kindness #period #respect #treat