#shin

I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#amazed #basically #contempt #convinced #dogs

In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934. ↗

— Jack Steinberger

#bound #charities #children #christmas #find

Mozart is sweet sunshine. ↗

— Antonin Dvorak

#sunshine #sweet

Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths. ↗

— Elizabeth I

#fair #gold #ignorant #shines

Only in Washington would death be considered a taxable event. ↗

— Mike Ferguson

#death #event #only #taxable #washington

Maoris now own over half the commercial fishing industry in New Zealand. ↗

— Malcolm Fraser

#fishing #half #industry #new #new zealand

You don't change minds in Washington with sweet reason. You do it to the white light of public opinion. ↗

— Steve Forbes

#light #minds #opinion #public #public opinion

I kept thinking I was always going to meet the right man, but I never did. Kept waiting for this knight in shining armour. 'When's he coming? He's taking a long time, isn't he?' ↗

— Samantha Fox

#armour #coming #did #going #i

It is not because I do not love my adopted land - it is the natural feeling of one far from home, who remembers those happy, carefree days when life flowed at full tide, without responsibility, flashing past one like the drama in a fascinating story of adventure and romance. ↗

— Erich von Stroheim

#adventure #because #carefree #days #drama

The idea seems to be to use the next treaty talks to strike a grand bargain: Britain will be helpful to those states wishing to establish a fiscal union among themselves if, in exchange, we can amicably derogate from the aspects of the EU which we dislike. ↗

— Daniel Hannan

#aspects #bargain #britain #dislike #establish