#han

Jamestown changed the world in many ways, but perhaps it shaped our nation most profoundly the day Africans arrived. I can't think of a more relevant place to talk about the issues facing our community today than the place where African culture became American culture. ↗

— Tavis Smiley

#african #american #american culture #arrived #became

In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was propaganda. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One. ↗

— Yakov Smirnoff

#channel #channels #consisted #had #kgb

It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country. ↗

— Adam Smith

#augmenting #banking #capital #country #greater

In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it. ↗

— Alexander Smith

#departures #find #lay #life #more

Nobody ever thanks you for saving them from the disease they didn't know they were going to get. ↗

— William Foege

#ever #get #going #know #nobody

I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life. ↗

— Webb Simpson

#course #day #did #ever #golf

The chemotherapy was very peculiar, something that makes you feel much worse than the cancer itself, a very nasty thing. I used to go to treatment on my own, and nearly everybody else was with somebody. I wouldn't have liked that. Why would you want to make anybody sit in those places? ↗

— Maggie Smith

#cancer #chemotherapy #else #everybody #everybody else

I'd rather buy clothes than buy a bed. ↗

— Christian Siriano

#buy #clothes #i #rather #than

If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#being #chance #going #good #good chance

Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#giving #half #join #minute #never