#dine

I visited the Chinese side last year. The Chinese are in a constant state of military readiness. They have all their nuclear weapons in the area, presumably trained on targets across the border. ↗

— Harrison Salisbury

#area #border #chinese #constant #constant state

I lived through the garbage. I might as well dine on the caviar. ↗

— Beverly Sills

#dine #garbage #i #lived #might

Today nearly every combat brigade located within the United States would report that they are not ready for duty. They are at the lowest levels of readiness. ↗

— Ike Skelton

#combat #duty #every #levels #located

What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president? Never get married. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#ferraro #geraldine #get #get married #learned

It's not always possible to sit down and eat at home in this day and age of fast-paced living, but if you are going to eat out, do so as a family and support all the great local places in your areas. I'll still eat at the same diner I did as a kid with my parents. ↗

— Michael Symon

#always #areas #day #did #diner

I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us. ↗

— Samuel de Champlain

#any #approach #arms #case #directed

Failure to put faith into action is one of the main causes of people’s dreams coming to nothing. ↗

— Christopher Dines

#dreams

The process of creating your dream ought to be playful, mixing and channelling your inspirational thoughts and intuitive feelings into manifesting your dream. ↗

— Christopher Dines

#dreams

There must be intelligence applied with enthusiasm otherwise you are leaving yourself open to blind faith. ↗

— Christopher Dines

#dreams

For Oscar, high school was the equivalent of a medieval spectacle, like being put in the stocks and forced to endure the peltings and outrages of a mob of deranged half-wits, an experience from which he supposed he should have emerged a better person, but that’s not really what happened—and if there were any lessons to be gleaned from the ordeal of those years he never quite figured out what they were. He walked into school every day like the fat lonely nerdy kid he was, and all he could think about was the day of his manumission, when he would at last be set free from its unending horror. Hey, Oscar, are there faggots on Mars?—Hey, Kazoo, catch this. The first time he heard the term moronic inferno he know exactly where it was located and who were its inhabitants. ↗

— Junot Díaz

#geeks #nerd #nerdiness #nerds #school