#ten

The transfer is a monumental occasion as the Iraqi people take control of their government and their future and forge ahead with creating a society governed by the tenets of life, liberty and freedom. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

#control #creating #forge #freedom #future

My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it. ↗

— Sam Abell

#ahead #almost #best #best work #occurs

Every time I listen back to solos of mine I'll hear something I like and then another phrase that I can't stand. You have to live with what you play. And the recording medium puts that on us. When I play live gigs I don't think so much like that. ↗

— John Abercrombie

#back #every #every time #gigs #hear

I never saw quite so wretched an example of what a sea-faring life can do: but to a degree, I know it is the same with them all; they are all knocked about, and exposed to every climate, and every weather, till they are not fit to be seen. It is a pity they are not knocked on the head at once, before they reach Admiral Baldwin's age. ↗

— Jane Austen

#humor #jane #persuasion #sea #sir-walter

If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk. ↗

— Gary Ackerman

#burns #democracy #flag #freedom #jerk

The idea of infection began to be taken far more seriously than it ever had before. Hospitals transformed themselves in response to the new plague - sometimes for the better, but often for the worse, as when, in fear, they cast their ulcerated patients out into the streets. ↗

— Peter Lewis Allen

#began #better #cast #ever #far

The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee. ↗

— Roy Acuff

#democrats #done #ever #governor #greatest

Unfortunately, the attitude of many towards the press, humanitarians included and especially government workers, is often one of suspicion, if not outright fear. ↗

— Alvin Adams

#especially #fear #government #government workers #included

Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#come #domination #impose #instrument #love

I am a quick study - I can memorize a script in an hour - but I can't remember a name three seconds. I've even forgotten my wife's name on occasion. ↗

— Don Adams

#even #forgotten #hour #i #i am