#erring

If you stick around long enough, people start referring to you as a survivor. Suddenly I found myself on the receiving end of several prestigious awards. ↗

— Martha Reeves

#awards #end #enough #found #i

Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts. ↗

— Laura Riding

#art #creative #indeed #referring #social

When you get inside go change into something loose and baggy. And for all that's holy, please wear panties and a bra. ↗

— Abbi Glines

#woods-kerrington #change

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant. ↗

— John Locke

#assurance #built #entertaining #greater #love

And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions yourself instead of deferring to a committee. ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

#books #committee #decisions #deferring #instead

When the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act, Sarah Palin tweeted, 'Obama lies; freedom dies.' She's referring, I guess, to the freedom to go without health care when you're sick. ↗

— Richard Trumka

#affordable #care #court #dies #freedom

In 2008, Barack Obama did get Democrats hyperventilating, whipped up to a creamy froth, while John McCain creaked ahead like a cranky granddad whom Republicans let move to the front of the buffet line, deferring to seniority, as they had in 1996, when Bob Dole turtled to the top of the ticket. ↗

— James Wolcott

#barack #barack obama #bob #buffet #cranky

Every economy is uncertain. Referring to this or any economy as "uncertain" is an unnecessary and pessimistic redundancy. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#economy #every #pessimistic #referring #uncertain

The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#becomes #ceases #eventually #first #genre

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#antidote #best #deferring