#lower

Flowers die and wine gets consumed. Both are lovely. I appreciate both. Wine and roses. I actually had someone bring me a lobe of foie gras once. ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

#appreciate #both #bring #consumed #die

One succeeds in obtaining an equivalent production at a lower price by improving the arts, trades and agriculture and by developing the physical and moral qualities of workers, farmers and craftsmen. ↗

— Antoine Lavoisier

#arts #craftsmen #developing #equivalent #farmers

When we signed our deal in 1974, we'd already been together for six years. When they lowered the drinking age in Ontario in 1971 to 18 years, we went from playing two or three high schools in a month to playing clubs two or three times a week. ↗

— Alex Lifeson

#already #been #clubs #deal #drinking

From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#body #flower #his #liberated #nation

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding. ↗

— Gian Carlo Menotti

#beauty #compete #effort #flowers #never

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#about #flowers #joy #mad #must

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven. ↗

— Russell M. Nelson

#blossom #born #die #earth #flower

Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#flower #modesty #nor #sincerity #spontaneous

The oil companies are regulated by the federal government. They can't drill on land nor in American waters without permission from the feds. Many Republicans want to drill baby drill but what's the point if all the oil goes to China? Increased production obviously doesn't mean lower prices for us. ↗

— Bill O'Reilly

#baby #china #companies #drill #federal

And they know I didn't hold expectations for them like I do for myself. But I also tell them I'm not going to lower the expectations I do have for them because we're playing Division II. ↗

— Cat Osterman

#because #division #expectations #going #hold