#shin

I did not come to Washington to raise the electricity rates by as much as $40 per month as this plan would do. ↗

— Greg Walden

#did #electricity #i #month #much

I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos and paid in very low wages but on the surface it was very bright and shiny and free and the rest of the world would look on it longingly. ↗

— Alice Walker

#bright #country #fifties #free #ghettos

It's astonishing what you learn and feel and see along the way. That's why a reporter's job, as you know, is such a joy. ↗

— Mike Wallace

#astonishing #feel #job #joy #know

I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk. ↗

— Barbara Walters

#better #desk #dinner #dinner party #get

English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

#education #english #far #goes #half-century

It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

#average #average woman #file #opened #rank

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk. ↗

— William Arthur Ward

#blessing #curse #dawn #dusk #foe

General Washington had rather incautiously encamped the bulk of his army on Long Island - a large and plentiful district about two miles from the city of New York. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

#army #bulk #city #district #general

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up. ↗

— Booker T. Washington

#down #exerting #other #pulling #pushing

If I had rolled along with the strip's popularity and repeated myself for another five, 10 or 20 years, the people now 'grieving' for 'Calvin and Hobbes' would be wishing me dead. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#another #calvin #calvin and hobbes #dead #five