#offers

Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night. ↗

— Mary Lou Williams

#churches #coming #dances #dates #dollar

I guess when somebody offers you a movie, you don't say no. That's what I've learned. ↗

— Colleen Haskell

#i #learned #movie #offers #say

Who says Australia offers not a home for every poor Englishman, or any other countryman that finds his way to our shores? And what sort of thanks do we get for it? ↗

— Henry Lawson

#australia #countryman #englishman #every #finds

In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative; fight, flee - or laugh. ↗

— Robert Orben

#choices #crisis #fight #flee #had

But Iran has gone far beyond what is necessary for a purely civilian programme. It has concealed several nuclear facilities from the International Atomic Energy Agency, played hide-and-seek with the international community, and rejected all offers of co-operation from the U.S., the EU, and others. ↗

— Anders Fogh Rasmussen

#atomic #atomic energy #beyond #civilian #co-operation

I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers. ↗

— Nancy Reagan

#cell #cell research #fulfill #i #make

No one can duplicate the confidence that RSA offers after 20 years of cryptanalytic review. ↗

— Bruce Schneier

#confidence #duplicate #offers #review #years

I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers. ↗

— Wallis Simpson

#courage #had #i #life #new

The greatest real thrill that life offers is to create, to construct, to develop something useful. Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs. ↗

— Alfred P. Sloan

#create #creates #creative #creative spirit #develop

No man made great by death offers more hope to lowly pride than does Abraham Lincoln; for while living he was himself so simple as often to be dubbed a fool. ↗

— Thomas Vernor Smith

#abraham lincoln #death #does #dubbed #fool