#wit

Effort without talent is a depressing situation... but talent without effort is a tragedy. ↗

— Mike Ditka

#effort #situation #talent #tragedy #without

People look up to me as somebody who is able to switch the image of our country from negative to positive. ↗

— Novak Djokovic

#country #image #look #me #negative

We don't want crimes committed in New Mexico falling through the cracks. This legislation ensures that there is no area of our state where crimes can be committed without consequence. ↗

— Pete Domenici

#committed #consequence #cracks #crimes #ensures

Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an institution or a national culture. ↗

— William Irwin Thompson

#consequences #culture #institution #intelligence #located

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#demand #did #never #nothing #will

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#ankle #chain #end #fastened #fellow

The soul that is within me no man can degrade. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#man #me #soul #within

Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely. ↗

— Rita Dove

#book #choose #entirely #feeling #go

-"He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful." -"It was stupid. ↗

— Lloyd Alexander

#comedy #comical #funny #humor #humorous

L.A. I could live without. ↗

— Julia Louis-Dreyfus

#i #live #without