#agu

She closed her eyes; and in the sweet slumber lying her spirit tiptoed from its lodging place. It's folly to shrink in fear, if this is dying; for death looked lovely in her face. ↗

— Francesco Petrarca

#petrarch #plague #death

As far as a truly radical conscience, you have to take it as part of a larger thing, that it was sort of historical inevitability that with the coming of a leaguer society people would start to use drugs a lot more then they had before. ↗

— Lester Bangs

#before #coming #conscience #far #had

Skinniness is not your friend when you're over 40. I'd like to gain a good 10 pounds, but I did always have a fat, round face that plagued me when I was young. When I started to make movies, I couldn't look at myself. ↗

— Ellen Barkin

#did #face #fat #friend #gain

My high school was a private school where you went to an Ivy League. That's just what was expected of you and nothing less. So I grew up never being okay with a 'B' because a 'B' was not good enough. ↗

— Troian Bellisario

#being #enough #expected #good #grew

If I am confirmed, I am confident that my colleagues on the Federal Open Market Committee and I will maintain the focus on long-term price stability as monetary policy's greatest contribution to general economic prosperity and maximum employment. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#colleagues #committee #confident #confirmed #contribution

Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets. ↗

— Yogi Berra

#because #good #good thing #keeps #league

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#certainly #decreed #infinite #league #little

I'd like to help educate kids about the Major Leagues - what to anticipate, what to expect, what they'll need to do to prepare themselves. ↗

— Barry Bonds

#anticipate #educate #expect #help #i

Let us return, however, to the League of Nations. To create an organization which is in a position to protect peace in this world of conflicting interests and egotistic wills is a frighteningly difficult task. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

#create #difficult #difficult task #however #interests

No nation is so great as to be able to afford, in the long run, to remain outside an increasingly universal League of Nations. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

#afford #great #increasingly #league #long