#switch

We often take for granted that our lights will come on when we flip the light switch, but the reality is that our reliability standards and the current state of the transmission grid leave us all vulnerable to blackouts. ↗

— Richard Burr

#current #current state #flip #granted #grid

I wanted to support things that are helpful to people and maybe bash what I think is dangerous. So I switched from being everybody to being myself. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

#being #being myself #dangerous #everybody #helpful

Having children is my greatest achievement. It was my saviour. It switched my focus from the outside to the inside. My children are gifts, they remind me of what's important. ↗

— Elle Macpherson

#children #focus #gifts #greatest #greatest achievement

Senator Arlen Specter hasn't really switched parties; he's simply realized he cannot win the Pennsylvania Republican primary election. ↗

— Michael Reagan

#cannot #election #hasn #parties #pennsylvania

I am involved in Greenpeace. And I just recently completely switched my diet over to near-veganism. So you try to do little things that you can. I recycle every single day. Every single thing in my house that can be recycled is. ↗

— Lindsey Shaw

#completely #day #diet #every #every single day

I think people ought to do what they feel useful at the time. If I do things because I ought to do them, I switch off. ↗

— Matthew Macfadyen

#feel #i #i do #i think #off

Greed, envy, sloth, pride and gluttony: these are not vices anymore. No, these are marketing tools. Lust is our way of life. Envy is just a nudge towards another sale. Even in our relationships we consume each other, each of us looking for what we can get out of the other. Our appetites are often satisfied at the expense of those around us. In a dog-eat-dog world we lose part of our humanity. ↗

— Jon Foreman

#foreman #greed #jon-foreman #lust #pride

I guess I feel like somebody flipped a switch, and the whole world is in Technicolor now. ↗

— Caroline Rhea

#flipped #guess #i #i feel #i feel like

And after about two years, I realized that creative writing was not going to help you ace those biological tests. So I switched over to journalism. I didn't graduate with honors, but I did graduate on time and with some doing. ↗

— Bob Schieffer

#ace #after #biological #creative #creative writing

Getting into the habit of switching a timer on will, I promise, save you from any number of kitchen disasters. ↗

— Delia Smith

#disasters #getting #habit #i #into