#lion

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best. ↗

— Voltaire

#best #big #god #shoot #side

There are no automatic links between poverty and terrorism. Among millions of poor people in the world, only a few turn to terrorism. ↗

— Gijs de Vries

#automatic #between #few #links #millions

A $1.7 billion average increase in electricity costs is estimated to result in a $1.3 billion decrease in personal income and a loss of 13,000 more jobs in the region. ↗

— Greg Walden

#billion #costs #decrease #electricity #estimated

If you raise taxes on millionaires and billionaires, you'll do nothing to address the debt and the deficit. And the thing you might do is you might finally put this economy over another cliff. These millionaires and billionaires are the folks that try to create jobs and help grow the economy. ↗

— Joe Walsh

#another #billionaires #cliff #create #debt

But we will lose the millions of records being created daily in a dizzying array of electronic forms unless we find a way to preserve and keep them accessible indefinitely. ↗

— Allen Weinstein

#array #being #created #daily #dizzying

Last year, when 'Black Swan,' 'True Grit' and 'King's Speech' all grossed over $100 million, it gave studios and independent financiers the confidence to make daring movies and not do the same old you-know-what. ↗

— Harvey Weinstein

#confidence #daring #financiers #gave #grit

People aren't stupid. I mean, people remember in 1990, the unemployment rate was 10 percent. Now it's 4 _ percent. We've got 1/4 million jobs that we've created. ↗

— Bill Weld

#got #i #jobs #mean #million

How many actors have a shot at being a part of something that became a part of pop culture? It's been very rewarding. I'm not getting the 20 million bucks for the new movies, but at least I'm getting warmth and recognition from people wherever I go. ↗

— Adam West

#been #being #bucks #culture #getting

When you look what is happening in this country with the debt, the deficit, the CBO coming out and saying once again we're going to have a trillion dollar plus deficit in 2012, the fourth straight year, and unemployment may be going back up to 8.9 or maybe nine percent by the end of the year, these are serious situations that are going. ↗

— Allen West

#back #back up #coming #country #debt

Once you can write an alphabet, you can write a book of 100 million pages. It's just a matter of believing it as possible, and taking the cross millimetre by millimetre. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#achieve #alphabet #believe #believe-and-achieve #believing