#vera

Obviously, overall infrastructure needs on the Southwest and Northern borders are mounting. We need a major push in Congress to remedy this. ↗

— Pete Domenici

#congress #infrastructure #major #mounting #need

A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#being #deceived #differing #divisions #each

As I understand I took most so-called democratic states about 200 years on average to build their democracies. That is why, when we go to sleep under totalitarian rule and wake up in a democracy, it makes me laugh. ↗

— Aleksandr Lebed

#average #build #democracies #democracy #democratic

About two-thirds of bachelor's degree holders borrow to go to school, and on average they're graduating with more than $26,000 in debt. ↗

— Arne Duncan

#average #bachelor #borrow #debt #degree

Being in several, disparate bands is what I thrive on. ↗

— Trevor Dunn

#being #disparate #i #several #thrive

Every time I think I have something under control, it changes and I don't have it under control. I think it takes several years to get there. Jade is 19 months old, so right now I'm on alert all the time. And as a mom I think you're constantly worrying about things. ↗

— Giada De Laurentiis

#alert #changes #constantly #control #every

The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#because #goes #hard #hard work #like

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#i #know #lot #man #results

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other. ↗

— Walter Elliot

#after #long #many #other #perseverance

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be. ↗