#sm

An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable. ↗

— Alan Greenspan

#antagonism #economic #economic freedom #freedom #gold

The serve, I was too young and too small and... not enough powerful to have a good serve when I was young, so my forehand was always my signature shot. So I used to always run around my backhand, you know, use my forehand as much as I could, and so that's why I think it's my strength also today, you know. ↗

— Roger Federer

#always #around #could #enough #good

We belabour, I think, under a very heavy crust of consumerism really. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#crust #heavy #i #i think #really

Let me completely condemn these sickening scenes; scenes of looting, scenes of vandalism, scenes of thieving, scenes of people attacking police, of people even attacking firefighters. This is criminality pure and simple and it has to be confronted. ↗

— David Cameron

#completely #condemn #confronted #criminality #even

There's another way we are getting behind business - by sorting out the banks. Taxpayers bailed you out. Now it's time for you to repay the favour and start lending to Britain's small businesses. ↗

— David Cameron

#another way #bailed #banks #behind #britain

I lived in a small town. It was 2,000 people in Canada. A little river that went through it and we swam in the - you know, there was a lot of water around. Niagara Falls was about four or five miles away. ↗

— James Cameron

#around #away #canada #falls #five

Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again. ↗

— Julia Cameron

#best #enough #ever #good #nothing

The purpose of the UN mechanism, this inspection mechanism, is not to engage in a cat and mouse game with Saddam Hussein and try to find weapons that the Iraqi government is working on concealing. ↗

— Douglas Feith

#concealing #engage #find #game #government

The American head of state grew up with a mother on food stamps. The British head of state grew up with a mother on postage stamps. Is that a contrast that fills you with pride? ↗

— Johann Hari

#barack-obama #elizabeth-ii #monarchy #monarchy-of-the-uk #postage-stamps

As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work, I'll leave that for others to decide. ↗

— Jane Campion

#decide #how #i #keats #leave