#stan

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances. ↗

— Martha Washington

#circumstances #contentment #happiness #attitude

The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself. ↗

— Laura Riding

#constant #create #end #even #give

A lively understandable spirit Once entertained you. It will come again. Be still. Wait. ↗

— Theodore Roethke

#come #entertained #lively #once #spirit

I long to have our family stand firmly for what is best and highest in life. ↗

— Abby Rockefeller

#family #firmly #highest #i #life

Why spend your life trying to fit in, when you are born to stand out? ↗

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

#age

What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it? ↗

— Harold Rosenberg

#better way #make #money #out #prove

You mustn't forget the circumstances I have been brought up in, the little education I have had. ↗

— Isaac Rosenberg

#brought #circumstances #education #forget #had

If there were an election today, Netanyahu would win. Yet, his standing in the polls is also a reflection of the weakness of Ehud Olmert, the current prime minister - who stands at 2 percent in a recent poll - and the enduring weaknesses of the Labor Party. ↗

— Dennis Ross

#current #election #enduring #his #labor

Al Qaeda is on the run, partly because the United States is in Afghanistan, pushing on al Qaeda, and working internationally to cut off the flow of funds to al Qaeda. They are having a difficult time. They failed in this endeavor. ↗

— Ed Royce

#al #because #cut #difficult #difficult time

These terrorists aren't trying to kill us because we offended them. They attack us because they want to impose their view of the world on as many people as they can, and America is standing in their way. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#attack #because #impose #kill #many