#what

I just do whatever it is that I believe I should do, regardless of the risks to my life. ↗

— Corazon Aquino

#i #i believe #just #life #my life

You can just never desist. You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you. ↗

— Michael Arad

#back #desist #just #never #pressures

I can get along great with the Hispanics. In fact, I sure would like to meet them, even the politicians, maybe in the back room or whatever, have a couple of beers and try to explain. But they need to understand that I enforce the laws. I want to listen to them and hear their problems. I want them to tell me what their problems are. ↗

— Joe Arpaio

#back #beers #couple #enforce #even

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost. ↗

— Arthur Ashe

#heroism #others #remarkably #serve #sober

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else. ↗

— Evelyn Ashford

#hard #hard work #i #muscles #my own

I draw whatever hits me. ↗

— Matthew Ashford

#hits #i #me #whatever

There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that all such explanations are inappropriate or wrong. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#energy #explain #explanations #genesis #i

Ten thousand pounds is the legal value of a negligently taken life, of a child or a parent. A cold and somewhat mean-spirited calculation: you would do better if you slipped on a paving-stone and broke a front tooth. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#broke #calculation #child #cold #front

I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement. ↗

— Angela Davis

#activist #allows #back #because #consider

Trade helps bring us products cheaply, but there is no guarantee whatsoever to assume that it will allow us to replace the jobs that have been lost, and there is no mechanism under productivity that says that, either. ↗

— Tim Bishop

#assume #been #bring #cheaply #either