#sand

The plastic on your sandwich really doesn't have to be made to last 50 years. ↗

— Charles Moore

#made #plastic #really #sandwich #years

I never thought I want to do anything, really, except not go to work properly and turn up at the same place every day and eat sandwiches in the same canteen, if I can possibly help it, as I don't think I'd be very good at it. ↗

— Dylan Moran

#day #eat #every #every day #except

For two thousand years, the Church has guided the development of music, carefully legislating to fuse artistic talent and aesthetic beauty with the demands of the Faith. ↗

— Richard Morris

#artistic #beauty #carefully #church #demands

They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood. ↗

— Gamal Abdel Nasser

#defended #desert #drop #grains #last

A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults. ↗

— Louis Nizer

#insults #thousand #worth

I run a taxpayer group - the most powerful guy in D.C., nonsense. OK? There are buildings with thousands of people in them, all lobbying for more spending and higher levels of spending and more government commitments. And there are a handful - a handful of groups that fight for less spending. ↗

— Grover Norquist

#commitments #fight #government #group #groups

Thousands of civilians have lost their lives to terrorist attacks inside Pakistan, and thousands more will - because, unlike the Pakistani government, which has no coherent policy to deal with the radicals, the Taliban have one to deal with Pakistan and its citizens. ↗

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#because #citizens #civilians #coherent #deal

In December 2011, I will be opening up my production house, Sharmeen Obaid Films, and aspire to change the way Pakistanis approach nonfiction storytelling. There are thousands of stories to be found here. ↗

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#aspire #change #december #films #found

What was a problem was the excessive amount of media attention to the appointment of the first woman and everything she did. Everywhere that Sandra went, the press was sure to go. And that got tiresome; it was stressful. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#appointment #attention #did #everything #everywhere

It is such a cut throat industry where you get knocked down so much and get rejected so much. If you do not back yourself up, no one else is going to so you really need to learn to get up, shake the sand off your chest and keep going. ↗

— Alex O'Loughlin

#chest #cut #down #else #get