#ron

Towards four o'clock, the rebels felt strong enough to take the offensive. A brigade with a battery under Earle managed to strike the Federal right on the flank and rear and throw it into utter confusion, which spread rapidly along the whole front. Now came the disastrous end. ↗

— Henry Villard

#battery #brigade #came #clock #confusion

Another inspiration that has helped me get through has been Lance Armstrong's story. My cancer is not nearly as bad as his, but I believe in staying motivated and keeping as fit as you can. ↗

— Grete Waitz

#armstrong #bad #been #believe #cancer

Every day I spend time on the treadmill. I am walking faster, stronger and harder than I was two months ago. ↗

— Grete Waitz

#am #day #every #every day #faster

The sad part about our past is that religions, ironically enough, are responsible for creating the most destructive idea that has ever been visited upon the human race: the idea that there is such a thing as 'better.' ↗

— Neale Donald Walsch

#been #better #creating #destructive #enough

in a constitutionally ordered state, where laws are derived from broad principles of right and wrong and where those principles are enshrined and protected by agreed upon procedures and practices, it can never be in the long-term interest of the state or its citizens to flout those procedures at home or associate too closely overseas with the enemies of your founding ideals. ↗

— Tony Judt

#ideals #right #wrong #home

I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan. ↗

— Robert Penn Warren

#expect #glory #greater #hear #i

The difference between the long-term average of the graph and the ice age, 12,000 years ago, is just over 3°C. The IPCC 2001 report suggests that the line of the hockey stick graph might rise a further 5°C during this century. This is about twice as much as the temperature change from the ice age to pre-industrial times. ↗

— James Lovelock

#age

I enjoyed entertaining people since I was a little girl. There was nothing better than making people laugh. That, and the need to express myself in a safe environment. ↗

— Amy Weber

#enjoyed #entertaining #entertaining people #environment #express

All that self-control stuff, I tried all that stuff from analysts. I went everywhere to these guys, every kind of anger-management, psychologist, psychiatrist. 'Get rid of my temper, get rid of my temper.' And there was only one guy who just said, 'I don't think this is related to, uh, issues. I think there has got to be something wrong.' ↗

— Harvey Weinstein

#everywhere #get #got #guy #guys

Chaos isn’t a pit. Chaos is a ladder. Many who try to climb it fail and never get to try again. The fall breaks them. And some are given a chance to climb, but they refuse. They cling to the realm, or the gods, or love. Illusions. Only the ladder is real. The climb is all there is. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#game-of-thrones #philosophy #point-of-view #love