#usa

In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour. ↗

— Stefan Zweig

#bring #does #history #hour #human

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#destroy #law #regulations #respect #ten

Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and the rest are fakes, hanging around the sacred precincts, trying to look like the real thing. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#genuine #hanging #known #like #look

Sometimes you try a song and people don't respond, or you tell a story and you just hear crickets. But when you play thousands of shows, you start to refine stuff. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#just #people #play #refine #respond

Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold to pour it in. ↗

— Robert Collier

#flux #make #mold #pour #shape

But last year there were 540,000 people, roughly, detained coming across the border illegally. Forty-five thousand of them came from countries other than Mexico, demonstrating the fact that Mexico itself now is a pathway into the United States for people all around the world, and we don't know what their intentions are. ↗

— John Cornyn

#around #border #came #coming #countries

I'll also tell you that five hundred thousand people will die this year of cancer. And I'll also tell you that one in every four will be afflicted with this disease, and yet, somehow, we seem to have put it in a little bit of the background. ↗

— Jim Valvano

#also #background #bit #cancer #die

I don't think that's changed at all. I think there are a thousand stocks out there that could make you rich, totally independent of what you do for a living. ↗

— Jim Cramer

#could #i #i think #independent #living

And what's fascinating in The Ten Thousand Things is that although there's time, an inexorable time of the three generations of lives, actively present, but place is the time, time doesn't really have to do with simply the human experience of it. ↗

— Robert Creeley

#although #experience #fascinating #generations #human

The grass roots are energized because the absolutely highest priority in the country in November is to defeat Barack Obama. I have spoken with literally thousands and thousands of tea-party activists - I have yet to meet a single tea-party leader that is not going to vote for Mitt Romney. ↗

— Ted Cruz

#activists #barack #barack obama #because #country