#ties

If the parties get too close together they lose their identities, if they get too far apart you're not going to get a whole lot done because you almost always need to have some folks on the other side of the aisle to accomplish anything. ↗

— Tom Allen

#aisle #almost #always #anything #apart

In 1995, sanctions led Sudan to cut its ties with terrorists and expel Osama bin Laden. ↗

— Tom Allen

#cut #expel #laden #led #sanctions

Opportunities present themselves to me. That's how my whole life has been pretty much. I've been lucky. ↗

— Lizz Winstead

#how #i #life #lucky #me

I like parties, but I'm shy, and I often find myself standing around, feeling awkward. ↗

— Michael Bergin

#awkward #feeling #find #i #like

Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime. I've came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#came #candidate #day #did #die

Primate and elephant and even pig societies show considerable evidence of care for others, parent-child bonding, solidarity in the face of danger, and so on. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#care #considerable #danger #elephant #even

I still feel that I am in my prime right now but I think my best fights were in my thirties. ↗

— Larry Holmes

#best #feel #fights #i #i am

I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#despise #half #i #life #making

I've learned some of the greatest life lessons from growing up in the skate and punk rock communities. ↗

— Mark Hoppus

#greatest #growing #growing up #i #learned

A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius. ↗