#ten

On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom. ↗

— Adelbert von Chamisso

#concealed #detain #fastened #filled #first

My older sister encouraged me from early on and bought me one of the first guitars I had. She listened to all of the crappy songs that I wrote when I was 8 years old and encouraged me to keep doing it. ↗

— Tracy Chapman

#crappy #doing #early #encouraged #first

The thing that I like about the way characters are written on the show these days is that nobody's perfect. Everyone has made a lot of mistakes and bad choices. ↗

— Crystal Chappell

#bad #bad choices #characters #choices #days

The vice presidential candidate tends to be a bit of an afterthought. ↗

— Mary Cheney

#bit #candidate #presidential #tends #vice

The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#greatest #itself #mystery

I have the Pleasure to assure you Congress pay particular Attention to the Defence of New Jersey, and hitherto have denied us nothing which we have Asked for that Purpose. ↗

— Abraham Clark

#assure #attention #congress #defence #denied

The problem that faces our country today, the last 30 years we have lived off the future, and the bill is coming due. So there cannot be anything that is not put on the table. There will not be one American that will not be called to sacrifice. Those that are more well-to-do will be called to sacrifice to a greater extent. ↗

— Tom Coburn

#anything #bill #called #cannot #coming

Practice is everything. This is often misquoted as Practice makes perfect. ↗

— Periander

#makes #misquoted #often #perfect #practice

I have often supported Israel, I have often visited the country and want the country to exist and at last find peace with its neighbours. ↗

— Gunter Grass

#exist #find #i #israel #last

The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show... Cops would come by - often just in time to see the act they wanted to see. ↗

— Dick Cavett

#administration #come #cops #eye #just