#sand

Sometimes you get politicians who dig their feet into the sand and aren't willing to listen to another voice. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#dig #feet #get #into #listen

A story in Asimov's is read by hundreds of thousands of people. ↗

— Greg Egan

#hundreds #people #read #story #thousands

We need just two players to be a contender. Just Babe Ruth and Sandy Koufax. ↗

— Whitey Herzog

#babe ruth #contender #just #koufax #need

I don't mean to be a diva, but some days you wake up and you're Barbara Streisand. ↗

— Courtney Love

#days #diva #i #mean #some

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#escaped #hourglass #life #more #our

Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains. ↗

— Hannah More

#luxury #more #perilous #poverty #quicksand

My thinking is that if we're going to take from a culture, let's take from a culture that has exemplified success for thousands of years. ↗

— Busta Rhymes

#exemplified #going #success #take #thinking

If you think black people have a motivation problem, open up a Wal-Mart and advertise a thousand jobs. Watch 5,000 people show up. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#black #jobs #motivation #open #people

In Afghanistan, there is a plan to build democracy; hundreds of thousands of troops are protecting it. There is a plan to rebuild and reconstruct there. But many thousands of Americans die from violence and poverty every year and we don't have a plan for reconstruction at home. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#build #democracy #die #every #home

Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

#bourgeois #five #hundred #millions #periodically