#disc

In the best of all possible worlds, everybody would be honorable, but that's not the way the world works. Reputations for reporters are made by discovering things underneath that rock. ↗

— Mike Wallace

#discovering #everybody #honorable #made #possible

If the president is going to use so much language of theology and the Bible, then let's use that language for a serious discussion about the war in Iraq. And that was never done. ↗

— Jim Wallis

#bible #discussion #done #going #iraq

Young people can get very discouraged and get hooked on drugs or on alcohol because of problems they perceive as insurmountable. It is important that they realize a mistake need not ruin their future, but they must also know that not everything in life is a bed of roses. ↗

— Maureen Forrester

#also #because #bed #discouraged #everything

No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#anywhere #confined #dedicated #disciplined #drives

Commanded love of all men indiscriminately is an obliteration of distinction between love and hate, and therefore is not love at all. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

#commanded #distinction #hate #indiscriminately #love

Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

#description #discovery #extends #function #making

I hope that I am generous and tolerant, but certainly on the intellectual side I think that there are discoverable truths, and some things that are closer approximations to the truth than others. ↗

— Edward Tufte

#approximations #certainly #closer #discoverable #generous

Parents should not smoke in order to discourage their kids from smoking. A child is more likely to smoke when they have been raised in the environment of a smoker. ↗

— Christy Turlington

#been #child #discourage #environment #kids

I believe the reason for my early independence is sport, through which I learnt at an early stage to take care of myself and be disciplined. ↗

— Blanka Vlasic

#care #disciplined #early #i #i believe

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#class #country #discover #high #high school