#tea

Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within. ↗

— Brad Pitt

#away #beast #emphasis #get #instead

The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape. ↗

— Andrew Vachss

#constantly #instead #like #narrator #omniscient

He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power. ↗

— Plato

#little #much #power #same #steals

And so whether it's failing to move forward on the Dream Act, failing to move forward on putting teachers back to work, failing to do all the things we could do right now to help the economy and middle class, this Congress is just saying no. ↗

— David Plouffe

#back #class #congress #could #dream

The American people know the economy is too weak. Too many of them are suffering. So the question for Washington is, are we going to continue to play political games and - and - or are we going to say, we can do something right now to create jobs, to put money in the pockets of the middle-class, hire construction workers, teachers, veterans? ↗

— David Plouffe

#american people #construction #continue #create #economy

America is great not because it's a team. America is great because it is a nation whose founding documents elevated the rights of the individual. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#because #documents #elevated #founding #great

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#development #excites #invariably #kind #sensitive

If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force? ↗

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

#conflicts #cure #family #force #futile

Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics. ↗

— Simeon Poisson

#good #life #mathematics #only #teaching

Our assessment of socio-economic worth is largely a sham. We scientists should not lend ourselves to it - though we routinely do. We should, instead, insist on applying the criterion of quality. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#assessment #criterion #insist #instead #largely