#ore

What do you see when you look in the mirror?' 'I? I see myself holding a pair of thick, woolen socks.' Harry stared. 'One can never have enough socks,' said Dumbledore. 'Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#mirror-of-erised #presents #christmas

If you want to know who the oppressed minorities in America are, simply look at who gets their own shelf in the bookstore. A black shelf, a women's shelf, and a gay shelf. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

#minorities #america

I was really more interested in dramatic work, but I thought, 'Well, I guess I could do comedy.' ↗

— Donny Most

#could #dramatic #dramatic work #guess #i

Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom—ah the soul-destroying boredom—of long days of mild content. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#mundane #the-flies #zeus #life

The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told. ↗

— Louis Kronenberger

#ask #closer #confidential #entitled #less

A healthy environment is essential to a livable Oregon and a strong economy. ↗

— Ted Kulongoski

#environment #essential #healthy #healthy environment #livable

We ought to have more people who believe in constitutionally limited government. We have to have more people come to Congress with that mindset. I think we can make this a better place, if, when elections happen, we support candidates who share that philosophy. ↗

— Mike Lee

#better #better place #candidates #come #congress

It's dishonest to say we're doing everything we can for our seniors when there is so much more we can. ↗

— John B. Larson

#doing #everything #more #much #our

Listen, if you start worrying about the people in the stands, before too long you're up in the stands with them. ↗

— Tommy Lasorda

#before #listen #long #people #stands

Every existence above a certain rank has its singular points; the higher the rank the more of them. At these points, influences whose physical magnitude is too small to be taken account of by a finite being may produce results of the greatest importance. ↗

— James C. Maxwell

#account #being #certain #every #existence