#says

Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#bloody #country #government #i #insult

This is a fundamental view of the world. It says that when you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but must repair the world around it, and within it, so that the larger world at that one place becomes more coherent, and more whole; and the thing which you make takes its place in the web of nature, as you make it. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#becomes #build #cannot #coherent #fundamental

If the director says you can do better, particularly in a love scene, then it is rather embarrassing. ↗

— Julie Andrews

#director #embarrassing #love #love scene #particularly

When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that. ↗

— Diane Arbus

#become #catch #cold #discover #grow

There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back. ↗

— Lance Armstrong

#come #every #i #law #regulation

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#his #how #look #much #neighbor

The truth is that as we move forward, if one side says we can't raise any taxes on anybody or any interest, and the other side says we can't cut anything, we're obviously not going to make progress on this. And our interest is in making progress on this. ↗

— David Axelrod

#anybody #anything #cut #forward #going

Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, "Make me feel important." Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life. ↗

— Mary Kay Ash

#every #feel #her #his #important

Shockingly, a University of Pennsylvania study says the number of young people addicted to gambling - largely due to increased exposure to the Internet and Internet gambling - grew by an alarming 20 percent between 2004 and 2005 alone. ↗

— Spencer Bachus

#alarming #alone #between #due #exposure

Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#boy #consider #disease #does #everybody