#tate

I was eating bad stuff. Lots of sugar and carbs, junk food all the time. It makes you very irritated. ↗

— Avril Lavigne

#bad stuff #carbs #eating #food #i

The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool. ↗

— Lynn Lavner

#critic #guide #must #never #state

Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state. ↗

— William Law

#evils #fallen #our #root #self

Perfection does not consist in any singular state or condition of life, or in any particular set of duties, but in holy and religious conduct of ourselves in every state of Life. ↗

— William Law

#condition #conduct #consist #does #duties

The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him. ↗

— Earl Long

#good #him #i #itches #kind

The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone. The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort. ↗

— Adolf Loos

#being #brought #comfort #draw #everyone

The United States of America have taken their name from the United States of the Netherlands. ↗

— Seth Low

#name #netherlands #states #taken #their

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#compromise #expedient #good #makes #often

To be sure, the United States has profound problems, not least our faltering educational and physical infrastructure. ↗

— Eric Liu

#infrastructure #least #our #physical #problems

I'm not an historian and I'm not wanting to write about how I perceive the social change over the century as a historian, but as somebody who's walked through it and whose life has been dictated by it too, as all our lives are. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#been #century #change #dictated #historian