#ladder

My bladder cancer was related to smoking, and I think smoking kills people. ↗

— Bob Schieffer

#cancer #i #i think #kills #people

It's a play where something went wrong, 'Cause it's five hours, twelve minutes long. If you sit there, my friend, From beginning 'til end, Then your bladder better be strong! ↗

— Allan Sherman

#beginning #better #bladder #cause #end

At this point in my life, beaming confidence is largely a matter of mind over bladder control ↗

— Josh Stern

#bladder #confidence #control #humor #life

The more flesh you show, the higher up the ladder you go. ↗

— Jerry Hall

#go #higher #ladder #more #show

I think my playing has been orchestral throughout the years, and this is another way of expressing that. But I primarily see it as the ultimate accomplishment of a musician. Composing makes me feel like I've finally gotten all the way up the ladder as a musician. ↗

— Tony Williams

#another #another way #been #composing #expressing

Our weaponry was not dropped onto our laps one morning. It is not manna from Sinai’s skies. Since Agincourt, the White man has refined & evolved the gunpowder sciences until our modern armies may field muskets by the tens of thousands! Aha!’ you will ask, yes, ‘But why us Aryans? Why not the Unipeds of Ur or the Mandrakes of Mauritius?’ Because, Preacher, of all the world’s races, our love—or rather our rapacity—for treasure, gold, spices & dominion, oh, most of all, sweet dominion, is the keenest, the hungriest, the most unscrupulous! This rapacity yes, powers our Progress; for ends infernal or divine I know not. Nor do you know, sir. Nor do I overly care. I feel only gratitude that my Maker cast me on the winning side. ↗

— David Mitchell

#ladder-of-cvilization #musket #love

For the most ambitious young people, the corporate ladder is obsolete. ↗

— Paul Graham

#corporate #ladder #most #obsolete #people

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#make #our #ourselves #out #themselves

We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#make #our #ourselves #same #those

A handkerchief can never be put in another pocket after it has been in one pocket. I don't walk under ladders. I have items of clothing that are lucky for me. That rotates, but I am luck-oriented. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#am #another #been #clothing #handkerchief