#rot

Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#poetry #sexual-tension #art

As Commander in Chief of the United States Military, I will never send our sons and daughters and our brothers and sisters to die in a foreign land without telling the truth about why they're going there. ↗

— Howard Dean

#brothers #chief #commander #daughters #die

I'm trying to protect what I advertise. That's my stance on any kind of self-expression. ↗

— David Duchovny

#any #i #kind #protect #self-expression

The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them. ↗

— Demosthenes

#best #everything #everything people #for the people #necessarily

When I was very young, I used to share much of what I wrote with my family, but as I got older and more self-conscious, it became a much more private process. ↗

— Anita Desai

#family #got #i #more #much

I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my parents told my brother Parenthesis and me that we should use any God-given talent we had. ↗

— Gail Devers

#any #athlete #became #because #brother

The present system of protecting NHS patients was a bit of a shambles. ↗

— Frank Dobson

#patients #present #protecting #shambles #system

There are some liberals eager to embrace a culture void of morals, but the majority of America is made up of honest, hard-working families who turned out in droves to protect the traditional way of life. ↗

— John Doolittle

#culture #droves #eager #embrace #families

When we ask American men and women in uniform to fight for this country and to defend this country's interest and then to send them overseas, there is no question we have an obligation to protect them and provide for their safety. ↗

— Byron Dorgan

#american men #ask #country #defend #fight

My four older brothers were my favorite players. That's why I got into football and sports. ↗

— Tony Dorsett

#favorite #football #four #got #i