#vol

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing. ↗

— Henry Adams

#hired #interests #involved #lies #nobody

The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity. ↗

— John Quincy Adams

#american revolution #bond #christianity #civil #civil government

I mean, what Fiat had it was not very big, it was something like forty or fifty million dollars, but it's enough to get revolving credit, to get starting away again, the buying of new machinery. ↗

— Gianni Agnelli

#away #big #buying #credit #dollars

After I had my son, Max, I knew I wanted to get involved in causes that help children. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#causes #children #get #had #help

You know, don't tell anybody I'm a jail bird, you know, but there were a bunch of us that were years ago involved in the pro-life movement. ↗

— Todd Akin

#anybody #bird #bunch #i #involved

This is pure speculation, but for a period of time, a lot of getting into a party was through fundraising and volunteer work, and Republican women had more time to do that than democratic women, who were out there getting jobs. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#fundraising #getting #had #into #jobs

I've sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I've helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes; I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup. ↗

— Alan Alda

#any #ate #blow #catch #could

Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man. ↗

— Shana Alexander

#fascinating #interesting #man #me #most

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia. ↗

— Woody Allen

#i #involves #minutes #peace #read

Being 5' 10, I was supposed to be too short to play college volleyball. So that gave me the hunger and the fire to say, Oh yeah? I'd just hit the crap out of the ball. ↗

— Summer Altice

#being #college #crap #fire #gave