#eden

I don't think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#again #believe #crazy #eden #garden

The Obama administration's attempted short-term fixes, even with unprecedented monetary easing by the Federal Reserve, produced average GDP growth of just 2.2% over the past three years, and the consensus outlook appears no better for the year ahead. ↗

— Glenn Hubbard

#ahead #appears #attempted #average #better

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#good #goodness #great #history #over

Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden. ↗

— Carl D. Anderson

#heart #home #i #place #reserved

Judge Roberts has assured me personally that he has a healthy respect for precedent and the hard-won rights of Americans. ↗

— Max Baucus

#hard-won #healthy #judge #judge roberts #me

I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory. ↗

— Andre Breton

#above #always #amazed #attaches #been

The Bahamas is headed for unprecedented economic activity. ↗

— Perry Christie

#bahamas #economic #economic activity #headed #unprecedented

We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#current #era #helping #historical #history

With my daughter, who at the time was one, my domestic life needed to take more precedent and really with my own self I needed to develop quite a bit more. So that put Blur down the list of priorities quite a lot by the time I came to thinking about it. ↗

— Graham Coxon

#bit #blur #by the time #came #daughter

Sweetheart, I want you to go somewhere with your life. I know that you can do some wonderful things if you set your mind to it. You’re a smart and caring teenager. Much more mature then most seventeen year olds. But death is inevitable for everybody. No matter how much people try to fight it, it’s going to happen.” Eden looked at me with a serious expression painted on her face. “Death doesn’t suit everybody, though. ↗

— B.C. Doyle

#til-death-do-us-part #death