#sol

Well, I think everybody is frustrated by the finances of the U.N. and the inability to solve problems of war and peace. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

#finances #frustrated #i #i think #inability

The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone. ↗

— Laura Bush

#alone #book #books #into #lies

I don't think you can really, truly be the partner you want to be until you know on an absolute level that you are a complete person on your own. ↗

— Sophia Bush

#complete #complete person #i #know #level

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#according #been #between #expect #get

There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers. ↗

— Michael Ignatieff

#costs #ever #financial #only #our

We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men with motives and a majority can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends. ↗

— Robert Byrd

#cruel #ends #germany #how #italy

Tonight - by taking this solemn oath - I am no longer a private citizen but the Mayor of the City of Chicago. ↗

— Jane Byrne

#chicago #citizen #city #i #i am

I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five? ↗

— George Byron

#anything #being #console #future #i

We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#hearts #our #own #sole #sorrows

I found collaborating with congenial doctors about problems that physicists could help solve was very satisfying. I also like educating anybody who would listen! ↗

— John Cameron

#also #anybody #collaborating #congenial #could