#seat

Like Odysseus, the President looked wiser when he was seated. ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

#looked #president #seated #wiser

You don't get to pick your partners in families; you get assigned a seat at the table. ↗

— Greg Kinnear

#families #get #partners #pick #seat

Well, it is so difficult right now when you look out on the road and how fast people go and the more and more cars you see out there, for teenagers, you'd think a kid that literally, a few years before, was sitting back in a car seat in the back seat is now behind the wheel. ↗

— Amy Klobuchar

#before #behind #car #cars #difficult

Women are not making it to the top. A hundred and ninety heads of state; nine are women. Of all the people in parliament in the world, thirteen per cent are women. In the corporate sector, women at the top - C-level jobs, board seats - tops out at fifteen, sixteen per cent. ↗

— Sheryl Sandberg

#cent #corporate #fifteen #heads #hundred

Doolittle was a major influence on the Seattle grunge scene, which emerged in the early 1990s. ↗

— Joey Santiago

#early 1990s #emerged #grunge #influence #major

Watching President Obama apologize last week for America's arrogance - before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans - helped convince me that he has a deep-seated antipathy toward American values and traditions. ↗

— Rick Santorum

#american #american values #antipathy #apologize #arrogance

What we do at its very, very best, at its very, very most, will shift us slightly in our seat. If only for two hours, great. If for the rest of our lives, even better. ↗

— Campbell Scott

#better #even #great #hours #lives

It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have - I guess you'd call them beauty contests - where all of the women of a particular village or town would be seated behind these screens or curtains with only their feet showing. ↗

— Lisa See

#behind #call #china #contests #curtains

You and I and everybody in show business and the entertainment industry fly by the seat of our pants. We don't know quite what is going to happen. ↗

— William Shatner

#entertainment #entertainment industry #everybody #fly #going

Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#division #economic #first #first of all #highest