#sure

I'm sure there were times when I wish I had thought, 'Gosh, that might really embarrass mom and dad,' but our parents didn't raise us to think about them. They're very selfless and they wanted us to have as normal of a college life as possible. So really, we didn't think of any repercussions. ↗

— Jenna Bush

#any #college #college life #dad #embarrass

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#fool #great #great pleasure #him #himself

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure. ↗

— Lord Byron

#moralist #out #pleasure #pour #sages

'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't. ↗

— Lord Byron

#book #in print #name #nothing #pleasant

I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way. ↗

— Vince Cable

#cats #completely #confront #cut #environmental

If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race. ↗

— Abraham Cahan

#distinction #due #extremely #high #high percentage

I've never really been anywhere, and now I get to go everywhere. I just have to make sure there's enough memory on my computer to hold all my pictures. ↗

— Carrie Underwood

#been #computer #enough #everywhere #get

I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

#gratefully #i #look #must #oblivion

Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life? ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#course #earth #life #most #succeed

Without the communist oppression, I am absolutely sure I would now be a local stupid professor of philosophy in Ljubljana. ↗

— Slavoj Zizek

#am #communist #i #i am #local