#lows

There used to be this feeling under Eisenhower and Kennedy and Roosevelt and Truman that government was a solution. Trust in the presidency fell precipitously under Johnson - real lows. And it's never come back. It's a trend that, if you're liberal, is really discouraging. ↗

— Robert Caro

#come #discouraging #eisenhower #feeling #fell

Now when the two armies met, many and fierce were the combats waged between them, and blows were given and received, and swords flashed and showers of arrows descended on all sides. ↗

— Ferdowsi

#arrows #between #blows #descended #fierce

Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a slave the moment he allows his actions to be ruled by passion. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#allows #becomes #everything #free #his

A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows. ↗

— Carlos Castenada

#follows #heart #knowledge #knows #laughs

The good thing about having this illness is that it allows me to be a little bit crazy. ↗

— Neil Cavuto

#allows #bit #crazy #good #good thing

One thing I do personally started 20 years ago. I started meditating, and I know twice a day I can kind of let everything drop. It's just about being quiet, like drawing back the day, and it allows me to have energy. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#ago #allows #back #being #being quiet

My life has been, I suppose, the most incredible series of highs and lows. ↗

— Craig Charles

#highs #i #incredible #life #lows

No, I've always been impressed with the tremendous resilience of the American economy. I think over the years, over the decades, it's demonstrated this tremendous ability to take severe body blows, if you will, and bounce back. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#always #american #american economy #back #been

I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea. ↗

— John Chrysostom

#difficulty #disturb #feeble #gales #great

As to my Title, I know not yet whether it will be honourable or dishonourable, the issue of the War must Settle it. Perhaps our Congress will be Exalted on a high Gallows. ↗

— Abraham Clark

#exalted #gallows #high #honourable #i