#ows

The history of nations shows that words are not always immediately followed by action. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

#always #followed #history #immediately #nations

Quite frankly, Barack Obama knows what it's like to pay a mortgage and student loans. He knows what it's like to watch a beloved family member in a medical crisis and worry that treatment is out of reach. Barack Obama knows our struggles. And, my friends, he shares our values. ↗

— Ted Strickland

#barack obama #beloved #crisis #family #family member

Content and technology are strange bed fellows. We are joined together. Sometimes we misunderstand each other. But isn't that after all the definition of marriage? ↗

— Howard Stringer

#bed #content #definition #each #fellows

Strong I am one of those who never knows the direction of my journey until I have almost arrived. ↗

— Anna Louise Strong

#am #arrived #direction #i #i am

Some shows, like PPG, tape in a group session, which is always more fun because you can play off each other. ↗

— Tara Strong

#because #each #fun #group #like

Pole vaulting is an event of high and lows. ↗

— Jenn Suhr

#high #lows #pole

Did you know, that one night; one moonless, clear, shining night; with the shadowy silhouettes of trees crisp against the star-filled sky – I, on the high, level terrace of my flat, stretched out my hand! Against all odds and possibilities of unbelief and grief – a life of searchings, discontent, and a nagging sense of unreality… A spider-web intuition of a spread-out, intricate illusion that wilfully withheld the truth from me. ↗

— Radhika Mukherjee

#longing #our-particular-shadows #questioning #radhika-mukherjee #beauty

News is so often a report of conflict, an account of problems, a thing of the day and even of the minute, that sometimes I think we make the background darker and the shadows deeper than they actually are. ↗

— Arthur Hays Sulzberger

#actually #background #conflict #darker #day

There are three things we need to do for a band. We need to make a great record; we need to get the record played; and we need to find an audience for the live shows. ↗

— Kiefer Sutherland

#band #find #get #great #live

Tool of Communist agitators... it's really a joke, isn't it? Because, quite clearly, we are a party of real moderates. It just shows how little they understand. ↗

— Helen Suzman

#clearly #communist #how #joke #just