#bat

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#combat #live #ourselves #state #virtue

Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#chopsticks #easy #eating #hand #like

Of all the subjects on this planet, I think my parents would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology to securing the keys to an executive bathroom. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#been #executive #greek #greek mythology #hard

Energy has become a national security issue and as technology continues to improve, there will be more debates like the one on Keystone. ↗

— Ed Royce

#continues #debates #energy #improve #issue

The subject of criminal rehabilitation was debated recently in City Hall. It's an appropriate place for this kind of discussion because the city has always employed so many ex-cons and future cons. ↗

— Mike Royko

#appropriate #because #city #city hall #cons

Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you. ↗

— Delmore Schwartz

#else #means #take #you

I want to warn potential victims. Many of them are women, and many of them are battered women. It's a cause for me. When I look back, though, so many of the books I've written are about wives who just couldn't get away. ↗

— Ann Rule

#away #back #battered #books #cause

The only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#combat #decides #engage #find #individual

As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy. ↗

— Babe Ruth

#been #born #easy #felt #got

Mitt Romney and I know the difference between protecting a program, and raiding it. Ladies and gentlemen, our nation needs this debate. We want this debate. We will win this debate. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#debate #difference #gentlemen #i #know