#si

If both John McCain and Obama were given a sip of truth serum, both would admit they made serious mistakes in choosing running mates in 2008. ↗

— Douglas Wilder

#both #choosing #given #john #john mccain

I grew up in this world where everything seemed possible. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#grew #i #possible #seemed #up

Since Obama has expressed admiration for the portrait of Abraham Lincoln that Doris Kearns Goodwin paints in 'Team of Rivals,' he could do the 16th president one better: He should name Hillary Clinton as his running mate in 2012. That would be both needed change and audacious. ↗

— Douglas Wilder

#abraham lincoln #admiration #audacious #better #both

Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens. ↗

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

#being #dreadful #easier #go #happens

A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babies, or perhaps not even born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin. ↗

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

#babies #baby #big #born #carrie

So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under. ↗

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

#behind #big #could #fence #go

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#aware #choose #decisions #forced #freedom

A play visibly represents pure existing. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#play #pure #represents #visibly

There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#eavesdropping #head #inside #like #nothing

Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences. ↗