#dre

What we are effectively doing, I say this to the young people of America whom my colleagues represent, is leaving our children and grandchildren the tab for fighting a war, letting them pay for the lion's share of it by simply adding it to the national debt. ↗

— John Spratt

#america #children #colleagues #debt #doing

Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as demanding as adult readers, if not more so. I should know. I'm a children's writer myself. ↗

— David Walliams

#books #children #demanding #i #just

Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they have no inkling of the loneliness that comes when you reach the top. The loneliness for an equal - for a mind to respect and an achievement to admire...They envy achievement, and their dream of greatness is a world where all men have become their acknowledged inferiors. They don't know that that dream is the infallible proof of mediocrity, because that sort of world is what the man of achievement would not be able to bear. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#greatness #mediocrity #dreams

I watched television a little, but I mostly just drew and read magazines. ↗

— Stephen Sprouse

#i #just #little #magazines #mostly

For years I've kept a list of dream projects. ↗

— Michael Bolton

#i #kept #list #projects #years

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#dreamers #lonely #only #owner #time

Women are nothing but machines for producing children. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#machines #nothing #producing #women #women are

Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#christ #crucified #ever #few #hours

The death tax punishes the American dream - making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations. ↗

— Kit Bond

#american #american dream #american family #average #average american

Take pleasure in your dreams; relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover. ↗

— Giotto di Bondone

#dreams #feelings #heart #lover #our dreams