#laced

George Carlin is kind of my template now because George Carlin before was straight laced regular comic and he had short hair, a tie, suit, nightclub guy. Then he said screw it, let his hair grow, just started telling what he thought was the truth. So that's what I'm trying to do. ↗

— Drew Carey

#before #carlin #comic #george #george carlin

While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#believe #creed #everlasting #gave #god

The Chautauqua Institution is truly a national treasure. It is a place for contemplation and a place for reflection, a place where platitudes and slogans can be set aside and be replaced by thoughtfulness and introspection. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#contemplation #institution #introspection #national #place

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy. ↗

— Martin L. Gross

#live #philosophy #replaced #which #world

Today three-quarters of the Palestinian people are displaced: there are 5 million Palestinian refugees throughout the world. ↗

— Ismail Haniyeh

#million #palestinian #palestinian people #people #refugees

The Chess-board must be placed with a white square at the right-hand corner. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#must #placed #square #white

The seeded draw came into being. This means that the two best players of the tournament are placed in opposite halves in the draw, and cannot possibly meet until the finals, if they come through successfully against all the rest of the participants. ↗

— Helen Wills Moody

#being #best #came #cannot #come

The squeaky wheel doesn't always get greased; it often gets replaced. ↗

— John Peers

#get #gets #greased #often #replaced

If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a "peace conference," you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes. ↗

— Joseph Stalin

#any #begins #conference #death #defend

Vadim was both my teacher and my husband. I placed myself entirely in his hands. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

#entirely #hands #his #husband #i