#us

Well, it's a little odd, the path I took, because when I was young, I wanted to be a cattle rancher. That was what I knew and that was what I liked. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#cattle #i #knew #liked #little

Time passed at an accelerated pace. They could be sitting in traffic or talking on the phone or waiting in line for a movie, and their time felt precious, important, worthwhile. ↗

— Galt Niederhoffer

#important #line #movie #pace #phone

I was always in the popular crowd, but I really had atrocious teeth. I was encouraged to 'do well in school, 'cause no one's going to marry you!' ↗

— Gabrielle Union

#atrocious #cause #crowd #encouraged #going

Just like I find men who talk sports who don't really know sports annoying, I think men might find women who don't really have a true passion and knowledge of sports maybe not so attractive. ↗

— Gabrielle Union

#attractive #find #i #i think #just

I think anything that requires real global breakthroughs requires a degree of intensity and sustained effort that cannot be done part time, so it's something you have to do around the clock, and that doesn't compute with our existing educational system. ↗

— Peter Thiel

#around #breakthroughs #cannot #clock #compute

Mr. Herriton, don’t – please, Mr. Herriton – a dentist. His father’s a dentist.” Philip gave a cry of personal disgust and pain. He shuddered all over, and edged away from his companion. A dentist! A dentist at Monteriano. A dentist in fairyland! False teeth and laughing gas and the tilting chair at a place which knew the Etruscan League, and the Pax Romana, and Alaric himself, and the Countess Matilda, and the Middle Ages, all fighting and holiness, and the Renaissance, all fighting and beauty! He thought of Lilia no longer. He was anxious for himself: he feared that Romance might die. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#disgust #italy #romance #age

When you think yours is the only true path you forever chain yourself to judging others and narrow the vision of God. The road to righteousness and arrogance is a parallel road that can intersect each other several times throughout a person's life. It’s often hard to recognize one road from another. What makes them different is the road to righteousness is paved with the love of humanity. The road to arrogance is paved with the love of self. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#self-righteousness #life

A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#instead #pen #scalpel #torch #uses

I don't intend to stop making music. ↗

— Frank Ocean

#intend #making #music #stop

Our country is wounded and bleeding now if we don't know whether or not habeas corpus exists. ↗

— Keith Olbermann

#corpus #country #exists #know #now