#tee

These people are headstrong and if they feel the curb loosed but one link they will with bit in the teeth in one month run further out of the career of good order than they will be brought back in three months. ↗

— Humphrey Gilbert

#bit #brought #career #curb #feel

How many of you have broken no laws this month? That's the kind of society I want to build. I want a guarantee - with physics and mathematics, not with laws - that we can give ourselves real privacy of personal communications. ↗

— John Gilmore

#build #communications #give #guarantee #how

We enter the government essentially in a hotel that is on fire. We're throwing people from the windows into the pool to save their lives and this is the evaluation of the Olympic diving committee: Well, the splash was too big. ↗

— Austan Goolsbee

#committee #diving #enter #essentially #evaluation

I am drawn to writing and directing as it is most like the feeling I had when I was a teenager with my puppet theatre. You are more in control of everything and involved in every aspect of production, so more challenged and fulfilled. ↗

— Richard E. Grant

#aspect #challenged #control #directing #drawn

I catch myself judging myself as that 13-year-old boy, who, of course, rightfully points out that he is only a child. And my membership - well, I was drafted into the Waffen-SS and didn't exactly volunteer, which was just as idiotic. I wanted to be on the submarines and then ended up with the Waffen-SS. ↗

— Gunter Grass

#catch #child #course #drafted #ended

Teenagers have more intense reading experiences because they've had fewer of them. It's like the first time you fall in love. You have a connection to that first person you fell in love with because it was so intense and unprecedented. ↗

— John Green

#connection #experiences #fall #fell #fewer

Congressman Berg will repeatedly talk about Harry Reid and Barack Obama, and I find it interesting, because this morning, when I woke up and brushed my teeth, I looked in the mirror and I did not see a tall, African-American, skinny man. So let's make it clear that my priorities are North Dakota priorities. ↗

— Heidi Heitkamp

#african-american #barack #barack obama #because #berg

There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors... But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity. ↗

— Claud-Adrian Helvetius

#disposition #esteem #general #glory #happy

My dad's not a very intimidating father figure. ↗

— Georgia Jagger

#conform #even #everyone #horrible #i

'Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions. ↗

— Antony Jay

#committee #decisions #device #matter #referring