#si

The American people are going to judge the majority party here today. If they go out here and vote for this rule that allows this provision to be stricken, they are voting against the men and women in the military of our country. ↗

— Norm Dicks

#allows #american #american people #country #go

These subsidies from four European governments, which include aircraft launch assistance, capital injections, debt forgiveness, have enabled Airbus to develop and range market airliners well below cost. ↗

— Norm Dicks

#aircraft #assistance #below #capital #cost

Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#great #great passions #great things #only #passions

All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#between #nothing #relations #sciences #signs

Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever...I saw nothing without seeing it, I heard nothing without hearing it, and felt nothing without feeling it. It looked from every star, it smiled in every calm, breathed in every wind, and moved in every storm. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#beauty-in-literature #freedom #freedom-of-expression #freedom-of-speech #freedom-of-thought

My own fantasies of what life would be like at 24 tended to the more spectacular. ↗

— Joan Didion

#life #like #more #my own #own

I'm not sure I have the physical strength to undertake a novel. ↗

— Joan Didion

#novel #physical #physical strength #strength #sure

The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself. ↗

— Joan Didion

#any #compulsion #compulsive #down #impulse

The minute you start putting words on paper you're eliminating possibilities. ↗

— Joan Didion

#minute #paper #possibilities #putting #start

My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear. ↗

— K. D. Lang

#express #genres #hear #i #sing