#ding

The truth was you can't continue to spend the kind of money our spending on all these entitlement programs. I think we need more people in public life who are willing to say, no, we can't afford certain things. No, we can't do certain things. ↗

— Chris Christie

#certain #certain things #continue #entitlement #entitlement programs

Someone has to stay on the line and say, no, we can do this by cutting spending and reducing the size of government. That's what I was committed to doing. ↗

— Chris Christie

#cutting #doing #government #i #line

There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#different #reading #rules #talking #them

بعض المذكرات أودعتها في مستودعات الماضي العتيق ، همشتها في أحد أدراج الأمس وقبل أن أمضي ! ألجمتها بجرعات الصمت القاتلة غرست بها بعض تخدير الموت الموضعي ! لأقصى نزف فيها ولأخمص ملامح ذابلة / باهتة موجوعة فيها ولكن الذكرى إعتادت على مراوغة ذاكرتي وحرمت عليها نعمة النسيان ! ↗

— نجلاء حسن

#faith #heart #love #reading #success

People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician. ↗

— Eleanor Clift

#balance #every #finding #much #people

Because the idea of zombies seems to make sense, and seems to, in a certain sense, be possible, I think one can use that to argue against the thesis that everything is purely physical. Now many people, I think, agree that the idea of zombies are conceivable, including people who want to be physicalists. ↗

— David Chalmers

#agree #argue #because #certain #conceivable

The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#able #buying #cars #drafts #finding

I read a lot of thrillers because they're easy reading and I'm not a great flier. They take my head out of it. I like the fast pace and that you can't put them down. ↗

— Georgina Chapman

#down #easy #easy reading #fast #flier

My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There's a lot of that in Silicon Valley. ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

#always #building #companies #cool #friends

That's the way I remember them, heading for an exit. ↗

— John Cheever

#heading #i #i remember #remember #them