#tho

The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever. ↗

— Maurice Hinchey

#american #any #citizenry #companies #conscience

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#away #awhile #birds #bring #come

I go through a thousand songs to find ten for a new record. ↗

— Conway Twitty

#go #i #new #record #songs

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#done #doubt #fine #self-sacrifice #toil

I try hard to be a good Catholic. ↗

— Paul Begala

#good #hard #i #try

I thought I was gonna be an attorney, so I went to Dartmouth and I was a government major and I minored in environmental policy, and I didn't do anything academically around the arts. ↗

— Aisha Tyler

#anything #around #arts #attorney #environmental

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus. ↗

— Alexander Graham Bell

#burn #concentrate #focus #hand #rays

I love England though; I've been back a few times and just love it. My favorite thing to do there is going to museums and all the castles. Oh, and my husband and I went mountain biking across England on our honeymoon! ↗

— Catherine Bell

#back #been #biking #castles #england

I started when I was in college because I was shy and thought it would be a good way to break out of that. ↗

— Catherine Bell

#break #college #good #good way #i

Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open. ↗

— Clive Bell

#convince #effective #fundamental #good #liberty