#tent

You have to pay a lot of attention to what's important, what's permanent, what's real. ↗

— Jim Balsillie

#important #lot #pay #permanent #real

Oftentimes during the period in which conventions really did business, you had situations where the delegates were divided and you would have ballot after ballot before there was a final nominee. ↗

— Michael Beschloss

#ballot #before #business #conventions #delegates

But I fear, my lot being cast in Scotland, that beauty would not be content. ↗

— Anne Boyd

#being #cast #content #fear #i

Rarely have elected leaders been so intent on defying the public will. ↗

— Scott Brown

#defying #elected #intent #leaders #public

It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment. ↗

— Barbara Castle

#attention #because #conditions #employment #men

In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject quite so worthy of my attention. ↗

— Jay Dratler

#attention #case #completely #discovered #i

The discontented man finds no easy chair. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#discontented #easy #finds #man

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#extent #imagination #life #live #metaphysics

When was the last time someone told you 'Look at the bright side of things' when you were depressed, and you actually paid attention to them? Maybe some people do, but I sure as hell don't. ↗

— Lev Yilmaz

#attention #bright #depressed #hell #i

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#did #dissolution #economy #i #intention