#tho

One-half of life is luck; the other half is discipline - and that's the important half, for without discipline you wouldn't know what to do with luck. ↗

— Carl Zuckmayer

#half #important #know #life #luck

If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#direction #fail #forward #go #make

The reason why I have survived as long as I have survived is what my friends, comrades and supporters thought was an extraordinarily cautious approach. ↗

— Ernst Zundel

#cautious #comrades #extraordinarily #friends #i

This doctrine of Christ and of the apostles, from which the true faith of the primitive church was received, the apostles at first delivered orally, without writing, but later, not by any human counsel but by the will of God, they handed it on in the Scriptures. ↗

— Martin Chemnitz

#apostles #christ #church #counsel #delivered

I would never offer advice without the person asking for it. I, in general, don't believe in giving advice, actually, as a human being I don't. ↗

— Joan Chen

#advice #asking #being #believe #general

And the fact of the matter is there were thousands of people that went through those training camps in Afghanistan. We know they are seeking deadlier weapons - chemical, biological and nuclear weapons if they can get it. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#biological #camps #chemical #fact #get

As I wrote I began to see more strongly that there were inescapable analogies. You couldn't really live through the '80s without feeling how crass and distasteful some of the economic doctrines were. The slave trade is a perfect model for that kind of total devotion to the profit motive without reckoning the human consequences. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#consequences #devotion #distasteful #doctrines #economic

And besides, I'm so in Dutch with my neighbors here that I thought that was better than getting them all upset with what might be a fake bomb scare where they'd have to clear out the whole neighborhood. ↗

— Ernst Zundel

#better #bomb #clear #dutch #fake

When George Bush asked me to sign on, it obviously wasn't because he was worried about carrying Wyoming. We got 70 percent of the vote in Wyoming, although those three electoral votes turned out to be pretty important last time around. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#although #around #asked #because #bush

You can't fall back on the private sector and say, 'You take care of the nation's banking system.' That's a fundamental function of the government, the Federal Reserve, the Treasury and the FDIC, etc. All of those agencies have a major role to play there. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#back #banking #banking system #care #etc