#side

We don't consider the roles that we're taking in making the world the way it is. ↗

— Richard Powers

#making #roles #taking #way #world

We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn't come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn't resurging. It didn't work out. ↗

— Colin Powell

#afghan #al-qaeda #back #come #control

Even though I support the blue side of Manchester's football heritage, I don't really mind that wherever I go in the world it's not Manchester City that starts the conversation. 'Ah, yes, Manchester United,' is the response when I say where I come from. It's commonplace everywhere - in Europe, Africa, Asia and even the U.S. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#ah #asia #blue #city #come

People rightly want our political leaders - on all sides - to concentrate on minimising the damage to jobs, living standards and our savings from the banking crisis. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#concentrate #crisis #damage #jobs #leaders

A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do with the timescale of reading. And for the hours that we retreat into this moratorium, with the last form of private and silent human activity that isn't considered pathological, we are outside of time. ↗

— Richard Powers

#book #considered #form #head #hearing

I want to make clothes that are beautiful of course, but also clothes that are interesting and considered and intelligent and not out of place. ↗

— Miuccia Prada

#beautiful #clothes #considered #course #i

What I do know is our state and country is currently backwards and upside-down, and we all are to blame in one fashion or another. ↗

— David Pratt

#backwards #blame #country #currently #fashion

I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#chose #decision #i #literature #me

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#comic #humor #i #i think #ingredient

I believe that the presidential term should be limited. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#i #i believe #i believe that #limited #presidential