#sid

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable. ↗

— Jane Austen

#enhanced #foolish #inconvenience #often #pleasure

I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table. ↗

— Paul Auster

#bread #contemporary #earn #food #french

Two special agents at the front door pulled me outside. By that time, they had already had the house surrounded with loaded weapons, machine guns, shotguns... about 25 federal agents. ↗

— Sherman Austin

#agents #already #door #federal #front

I think that more and more you're going to see people of good will on their side of the aisle say you know what, we got to get off the bus here, this is not headed in the right direction. ↗

— David Axelrod

#bus #direction #get #going #good

I think that the millions and millions of young Americans, young Americans, who have health care today, who wouldn't have had it if the president hadn't acted are better off. ↗

— David Axelrod

#better #better off #care #had #hadn

I think those autoworkers whose industry would have collapsed if the president hadn't intervened are certainly better off. ↗

— David Axelrod

#better off #certainly #collapsed #hadn #i

The truth is that as we move forward, if one side says we can't raise any taxes on anybody or any interest, and the other side says we can't cut anything, we're obviously not going to make progress on this. And our interest is in making progress on this. ↗

— David Axelrod

#anybody #anything #cut #forward #going

I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap. ↗

— Dan Aykroyd

#heart #i #inside #kind #like

I'm not going to give President Bush any advice. He knows. He knows what I think. ↗

— Jose Maria Aznar

#any #bush #give #going #i

We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#basis #continue #country #democratic #deregulated