#nth

I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#ever #first #got #hell #here

One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity. ↗

— Ivan Turgenev

#anything #avidity #earth #ecstasy #enthusiasm

At one point, I didn't get out of bed for, I think, three months, and I went down to the bottom of the hill one day and I had to call somebody to get me to come back up - come pick me up because I couldn't physically walk up the hill. ↗

— Tanya Tucker

#back up #because #bed #bottom #call

Studying anthropology, I developed a kind of holistic view of human existence, in which the dichotomies you listed are all necessary and vital aspects of life. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#aspects #developed #existence #holistic #human

My schedule has slowed a little. I've cut back on some of my assignments. But I still have the enthusiasm for the sports world that I had 38 years ago. ↗

— Lesley Visser

#assignments #back #cut #enthusiasm #had

I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way. ↗

— A. E. van Vogt

#because #casually #cost #expected #had

Double-digit inflation is a terrible thing - and it got up to 14 or 15 percent on a monthly basis for a while, shortly after I became chairman of the Fed. ↗

— Paul A. Volcker

#basis #became #chairman #double-digit #fed

I can't be bothered to go to the gym, though. I honestly just can't be bothered - it's the most boring thing on Earth. I have tried and every six months I go 'right, I'm going to the gym'. Then I do it for two weeks and get so bored by it. ↗

— Carol Vorderman

#boring #boring thing #bothered #earth #every

There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#feeding #hand #more #nothing #parenthood

If in any divination the Tenth Card should be a Court Card, it shews that the subject of the divination falls ultimately into the hands of a person represented by that card, and its end depends mainly on him. ↗

— Arthur E. Waite

#card #court #depends #end #falls