#table

No war is inevitable until it breaks out. ↗

— A. J. P. Taylor

#inevitable #out #until #war

I'm very unstable; there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don't know where your money's coming from. ↗

— James Taylor

#coming #hand #i #know #life

But every day I tell my story, and be comfortable with my story and be comfortable with what I've done, and what I did, and how I am today, it lessens the likelihood it will ever happen. ↗

— Lawrence Taylor

#comfortable #day #did #done #ever

It all comes back to the basics. Serve customers the best-tasting food at a good value in a clean, comfortable restaurant, and they'll keep coming back. ↗

— Dave Thomas

#basics #clean #comes #comfortable #coming

We in the press have a special role since there is no other institution in our society that can hold the President accountable. I do believe that our democracy can endure and prevail only if the American people are informed. ↗

— Helen Thomas

#american #american people #believe #democracy #endure

The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of all, we need to preserve the absolute unpredictability and total improbability of our connected minds. That way we can keep open all the options, as we have in the past. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#agency #any #connected #dangerous #entrusted

The uniformity of the earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single cell, fertilized in a bolt of lightning as the earth cooled. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#astonishing #bolt #cell #cooled #derived

Even the National Bank of Romania doesn't have the huge resources needed to intervene in the market and keep the leu at an acceptable level, because they're drawing close to a floor below which the bank's reserves can't drop. The central bank has to wait for a moment of calm to efficiently conduct its interventions. ↗

— Traian Basescu

#bank #because #below #calm #central

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#forgive #himself #others #selfishness #vice

Let's leave behind the predictable and stale debate between liberals and conservatives. Let's take the resources that we have, and prioritize, and manage, and focus our energy on just doing things that count - on real results. ↗

— Phil Bredesen

#between #conservatives #count #debate #doing