#them

Everything starts with yourself, with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. I tell kids that it's a cruel world, and that the world will bend them either left or right, and it's up to them to decide which way to bend. ↗

— Tony Dorsett

#bend #cruel #decide #either #everything

Our people can draw on the tremendous strides made in recent years, not only in terms of advancing themselves spiritually and materially, but also in having weathered social and economic turbulence, triggered, in the main, by factors not of their own creation. ↗

— Denzil Douglas

#also #creation #draw #economic #factors

I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them. ↗

— Tommy Douglas

#being #buildings #i #mind #monument

I think any good government will target on the finishing date, that is, the polling day and make sure that their strategy is strong and in place to get them successfully re-elected. ↗

— Alexander Downer

#date #day #finishing #get #good

Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself. ↗

— Arthur Eddington

#himself #idol #mathematician #proof #pure

The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves. ↗

— Maria Edgeworth

#class #considered #creature #harmless #hurt

Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless, if true believers of democracy - citizens devoted to the democratic ideals - do not constantly oppose them. ↗

— Charles Edison

#believers #bosses #citizens #constantly #democracy

The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves. ↗

— Irwin Edman

#created #largely #least #myth #standardized

There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them. ↗

— Anthony Edwards

#children #enough #father #going #having

Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game. ↗

— Blake Edwards

#facts #game #guessing #investigation #matters