#straps

I love roller coasters that make my stomach drop. One ride in Las Vegas, the Big Shot, straps you into a row of seats and catapults you into the air from the top of the Stratosphere Tower - then plummets back down. I ride it over and over; it's exhilarating. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#back #big #big shot #coasters #down

President Obama is casting his lot in the middle of a debate as old as America itself: Are we rugged individualists pulling ourselves up by the bootstraps? Or are we a nation of community, all connected and counting on one another? ↗

— Ron Fournier

#another #bootstraps #casting #community #connected

I think it's a great thing to have failed in life and then pulled yourself up by the boot straps and actually done something, because then you appreciate it more. ↗

— Shirley Manson

#appreciate #because #boot #done #failed

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots. ↗

— Thurgood Marshall

#because #bent #boots #bootstraps #down

It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps. ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#equality #fair #reasonable #work-ethic #equality

If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire. ↗

— George Monbiot

#bootstraps #hard-work #wealth #dreams

It's an appeal as old as America and its presidency: This is an extraordinary country populated by hard-working, big-dreaming, freedom-loving people graced by God when they're not pulling themselves up by the bootstraps. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#appeal #bootstraps #country #extraordinary #freedom-loving

Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

#capable #capitalists #himself #his #lifting

Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps. ↗

— Emo Philips

#just #leather #mornings #seem #some

Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps. ↗

— Emo Philips

#chewing #just #leather #mornings #some