#tin

While we have made great progress in increasing funding for veterans' benefits, we still have a long way to go in fully meeting the promise to our veterans. ↗

— Sue Kelly

#fully #funding #go #great #great progress

Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren't things to think about any more. All that matters is value - the ultimate value of what one does. ↗

— James Hilton

#any #comes #cost #counting #does

I think art is good at looking back and looking forward. I don't think art is good at looking head-on. At the end of the day, people are more important than paintings. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#back #day #end #end of the day #forward

Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they? ↗

— David Hockney

#diploma #going #i #i see #painter

I've been acting for a long time now, but as narcissistic as this sounds - and I don't mean it to sound - every time I see my name up there, there is real sense of pride. ↗

— Ryan Kwanten

#been #every #every time #i #i see

How is it that from beauty I have derived a type of unloveliness? - from the covenant of peace, a simile of sorrow? But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe's "Berenice"

#inspirational-quotes #interesting-quotes #sorrow #beauty

Americans appreciate the way our friends around the world are sticking by us, and we all hope for their continued support in what's going to be some very trying times. ↗

— Joe Lando

#around #continued #friends #going #hope

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve. ↗

— Tom Landry

#getting #leadership #someone #want

Until fighting ends and there are conditions, which allow the free expression of will by the people, there can be no elections and elections are not held in these circumstances anywhere in the world. ↗

— Aslan Maskhadov

#anywhere #by the people #circumstances #conditions #elections

Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature. ↗

— Steig Larsson

#classical #detective #detective stories #entertainment #light