#sit

Instead, we did take our eye off the ball. We decided, instead of finishing the job in Afghanistan, to go into Iraq. And today, unfortunately, if you look at the situation on the ground, it is a mess. ↗

— Chris Van Hollen

#ball #decided #did #eye #finishing

I don't really make plans and I just want to be happy and continue with my business and take care of my wife and kids. I want to sit back, relax and enjoy life. ↗

— Larry Holmes

#be happy #business #care #continue #enjoy

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#adding #always #chief #damn #end

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#education #facts #how #intellectual #learning

No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back. ↗

— John Holt

#attention #back #before #bring #child

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity. ↗

— Lou Holtz

#done #i #me #overcome #show

I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on. ↗

— Lou Holtz

#ball player #football #football player #i #kind

They committed murder, it is true; but their situation may have rendered it inevitable. ↗

— Philip Hone

#inevitable #may #murder #rendered #situation

If you are a friend of the Constitution as I am, I hope you will consider engaging me in the topics of my posts whether you agree or disagree with my position on a particular subject. ↗

— John Jay Hooker

#am #consider #constitution #disagree #engaging

While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one. ↗

— Horace

#fools #into #opposite #run #set