#though

By this act the president alone is empowered to make the law, to fix in his mind what acts, words, what thoughts or looks, shall constitute such a crime. ↗

— Edward Livingston

#acts #alone #constitute #crime #empowered

Diversity of thought and culture and religion and ideas has been the strength of America. ↗

— Gary Locke

#been #culture #diversity #ideas #religion

I have no regrets about my career or retiring. Not once have I thought 'Gosh, I wish I was back on the court. ↗

— Rebecca Lobo

#back #career #court #gosh #i

But as a woman, I really started feeling vulnerable on the set, and I really felt that it was important that I should not be open for invitation or making myself look as though I was waiting for something. ↗

— John Lone

#felt #i #important #invitation #look

I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not. ↗

— Clare Boothe Luce

#does #either #i #i think #like

Thoughts have no sex. ↗

— Clare Boothe Luce

#thoughts

So while I was in college I did a little study on the freight industry, the air freight industry. And I looked at this company called Flying Tiger. And I actually put a thousand dollars in it and I remember I thought this air cargo was going to be a thing of the future. ↗

— Peter Lynch

#air #called #cargo #college #company

When you concentrate your energy purposely on the future possibility that you aspire to realize, your energy is passed on to it and makes it attracted to you with a force stronger than the one you directed towards it. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money #motivational #new-age

The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress. ↗

— Ramana Maharshi

#degree #freedom #freedom from #gauge #measures

My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#deserved #i #i always #nobel #prize