#oft

'Not again!' I thought to myself this morning, as news trickled out that John McCain was set to pick Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. Not again, because too often women are promoted for the wrong reasons, and then blamed when things don't go right. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#alaska #because #blamed #go #governor

Part of Obama's persona is self-reliance. He's calm; he's cool; he's self-possessed. In many ways, he has tried to define himself in opposition to Clinton's sometimes needy, often undisciplined, emotionalism. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#clinton #cool #define #himself #many

My Dad was from Liverpool, and he picked it up in the army. He'd often come out with this stuff. ↗

— Mike Myers

#come #dad #liverpool #often #out

Fiscal crises often turn into financial crises, dealing a blow to the real economy. ↗

— Lee Myung-bak

#crises #dealing #economy #financial #financial crises

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#cruelty #music #oppression #simple #soft

John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships. ↗

— Ralph Nader

#cable #car #dominate #john #media

This part of being a man, changing the way we parent, happens only when we want it to. It changes because we are determined for it to change; and the motive for changing often comes out of wanting to be the kind of parent we didn't have. ↗

— Augustus Y. Napier

#being #being a man #change #changes #changing

What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

#man #more #nothing #often #passes

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

#above #arbitrary #estate #often #principles

The law often allows what honor forbids. ↗

— Bernard Joseph Saurin

#forbids #honor #law #often