#laps

Having enough to eat, being able to educate your children, have reasonably stable employment, and being able to live in a society which isn't collapsing around you-all of these things have been generally eroded. ↗

— Susan George

#around #been #being #children #collapsing

Investing in auto companies and ensuring a financial collapse didn't lead not from a recession to a great depression may not have been the most popular thing to do, but it was the right thing to do. ↗

— Robert Gibbs

#been #collapse #companies #depression #ensuring

It took us years to get into the mess that we got ourselves in at the end of 2008, and it's going to take a while to get us out. We lost eight million jobs, we saw a financial system near collapse, we have a continuing housing crisis that we're making progress on dealing with. ↗

— Robert Gibbs

#continuing #crisis #dealing #eight #end

Buzz has reduced my range. Running safely with him means using fewer and shorter routes, with multiple laps per day or multiple returns there per week. Neither of us minds repeating ourselves. This is what runners do. ↗

— Joe Henderson

#day #fewer #him #laps #means

Some people might go to the gym and swim laps, but I write songs. Every single day, I write something new and record it. ↗

— Glenn Hughes

#every #every single day #go #gym #i

When I look back on my childhood, I think of that short time in Beirut. I know that seeing the city collapse around me forced me to grasp something many people miss: the fragility of peace. ↗

— Greg Kinnear

#back #beirut #childhood #city #collapse

The internet will catastrophically collapse in 1996. ↗

— Robert Metcalfe

#collapse #internet #will

The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually. ↗

— Kenneth R. Miller

#argument #collapsed #design #dover #intellectually

Anyway, I collapsed in France in the middle of a tour. I hadn't been eating properly, I was getting very phobic about audiences, and I collapsed in pure fright. ↗

— Andy Partridge

#anyway #audiences #been #collapsed #eating

If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic. ↗

— Warren Rudman

#bridges #buildings #care #chaotic #collapsing