#sure

The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men. ↗

#arbiter #ballot #ballot box #box #disputes

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#around #bonds #burst #caught #eager

I will lobby tirelessly in cooperation with other mayors around the country to insure that federal funding for our recently added police officers continues. ↗

— Alan Autry

#around #continues #cooperation #country #federal

I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don't compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#art #compromise #feel #free #how

Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows. ↗

— John Betjeman

#childhood #dark #grows #hour #measured

I'm sure some people have an absolute grasp of where they are in their careers. I just don't think about it that much. ↗

— Paul Bettany

#absolute #careers #grasp #i #just

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#everything #follows #greatest #greatest pleasures #pleasures

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man. ↗