#idly

I was gaining weight very rapidly and read about the idea of restricting carbohydrates as an alternative to going hungry. I had a big appetite, so that was the only thing I would even consider. ↗

— Robert Atkins

#alternative #appetite #big #carbohydrates #consider

I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction. ↗

— Aneurin Bevan

#continuous #fiction #form #i #newspapers

Ideas move rapidly when their time comes. ↗

— Carolyn Heilbrun

#ideas #move #rapidly #their #time

We cannot sacrifice our safety to the murderous greed of drug cartels. We cannot stand idly by as drop houses, kidnappings and violence compromise our quality of life. ↗

— Jan Brewer

#compromise #drop #greed #houses #idly

As far as 3-D goes, I don't know if that will stay very long because things are moving so rapidly. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#because #far #goes #i #know

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

#age #callous #comparatively #earlier #easily

Their Internet usage is growing very rapidly, and even they can do the math: If everyone in China needed an IPv4 address - just one - this country would use up one third of the entire public IP address space. ↗

— Vinton Cerf

#china #country #entire #even #everyone

We're rapidly approaching a world comprised entirely of jail and shopping. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#comprised #entirely #jail #rapidly #shopping

I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material, so rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new. ↗

— Alan Dean Foster

#bad #bored #get #hard #i

As you may recall, Truman was extremely unpopular when he finally left Washington in 1953, thanks largely to the Korean War. Today, however, he is thought to have been a solidly good president, a 'Near Great' even, in the terminology of those surveys of historians they do every now and then. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#even #every #extremely #finally #good