#this

Now he realized the truth: that sacrifice was no purchase of freedom. It was like a great elective office, it was like an inheritance of power - to certain people at certain times an essential luxury, carrying with it not a guarantee but a responsibility, not a security but an infinite risk. Its very momentum might drag him down to ruin - the passing of the emotional wave that made it possible might leave the one who made it high and dry forever on an island of despair...Sacrifice by its very nature was arrogant and impersonal; sacrifice should be eternally supercilious. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#sacrifice #this-side-of-paradise #freedom

Haldeman is the only man in America in this generation who let his hair grow for a courtroom appearance. ↗

— Mary McGrory

#appearance #courtroom #generation #grow #hair

I imagine Johnny Mathis hates Bin Laden as much as I do, but could Johnny agree Bin Laden had a better speechwriter than Bush? "Axis of Evil"? Come on. "A swimmer in the ocean does not fear the rain" is much more powerful propaganda. Poetic, even. ↗

— John Waters

#george-w-bush #johnny-mathis #osama-bin-laden #imagination

For years now I have been talking about personal responsibility and accountability, both in our private lives and in the halls of government. Those are important principles here in Idaho, and they will form the basis of this administration. ↗

— Butch Otter

#accountability #administration #basis #been #both

I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain't never been seen by this generation. ↗

— Satchel Paige

#generation #i #illegal #never #once

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#generation #rendezvous #this generation

I can't believe I've let you in, and now here I am telling you that I'm suffocating in here. ↗

— Sara Quin

#i-let-you-in #sara-quin #suffocating #tegan-and-sara #tegan-quin

So you fake and you flaw, for your cops and your cause. It makes no difference to me. It's love that you stole, that you stole. ↗

— Sara Quin

#flaw #love-that-you-stole #no-difference-to-me #not-with-you #sara-quin

It shouldn't take an emergency for this Administration to deal with the health care needs of our nation's heroes. Funding the VA and our bringing our troops home safely should never be treated as an afterthought. ↗

— John Salazar

#afterthought #bringing #care #deal #emergency

Before I love you can come out of my mouth again, the front door swings open and Julia walks outside. "We're going to have to set some ground rules," she says. There's more amusement in her voice than anger or annoyance. "Sorry, Julia," I yell over my shoulder. I turn back to Lake and kiss her one last time, then take a step away from her. "It's just that I'm madly in love with your daughter!" "Yeah." Julia laughs. "I can see that. ↗

— Colleen Hoover

#this-girl #anger