#orders

If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a "peace conference," you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes. ↗

— Joseph Stalin

#any #begins #conference #death #defend

I wish I had cancer. I will burn in hell for that, but it's true. ↗

— Laurie Halse Anderson

#cancer

I am the space between my thighs, daylight shining through. ↗

— Laurie Halse Anderson

#space

Except you cannot outrun insanity, anymore than you can outrun your own shadow. ↗

— Alyssa Reyans

#bipolar-disorder #depression #mental-illness #mood-disorders #mental-illness

When they come to Europe, they are confronted by still closed borders. Thus, the concept of open borders is a very selective concept, one that is not taken seriously at all in the experience of non-Europeans. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#closed #come #concept #confronted #europe

Anytime a person goes into a delicatessen and orders a pastrami on white bread, somewhere a Jew dies. ↗

— Milton Berle

#bread #dies #goes #into #jew

There is no question that we must do more to secure our borders - but how we go about securing them is also important. ↗

— Mark Udall

#also #borders #go #how #important

Both our senses and our passions are a supply to the imperfection of our nature; thus they show that we are such sort of creatures as to stand in need of those helps which higher orders of creatures do not. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#creatures #helps #higher #imperfection #nature

To live in a culture in which women are routinely naked where men aren't is to learn inequality in little ways all day long. So even if we agree that sexual imagery is in fact a language, it is clearly one that is already heavily edited to protect men's sexual--and hence social--confidence while undermining that of women. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#beauty #eating-disorders #feminism #self-esteem #society

I support secure borders both north and south and I support a guest worker program for those here today illegally. Labor and skilled workers are critical to our Texas economy. ↗

— David Dewhurst

#both #critical #economy #guest #guest worker program