#pair

I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty. ↗

— Imelda Marcos

#did #had #i #pairs #shoes

The workers of the nation were tired of waiting for corporate industry to right their economic wrongs, to alleviate their social agony and to grant them their political rights. Despairing of fair treatment, they resolved to do something for themselves. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#alleviate #corporate #despairing #economic #fair

We had high and boisterous winds last night and this morning: the Indians continue to purchase repairs with grain of different kinds. ↗

— Meriwether Lewis

#continue #different #different kinds #grain #had

Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#before #etc #just #libraries #new

God gave you not a spirit of faithlessness, not a spirit of despair. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#gave #god #spirit #you

Most of us would never consider getting our car repaired without first receiving an estimate of the charges, but this is exactly what we do when we need to go to a hospital for treatment. ↗

— Dan Lipinski

#charges #consider #estimate #exactly #first

Some people train for certain sports and I want to train to be able to hold a super heavy electric guitar and carry luggage around myself because I always have to have 7,000 pairs of shoes. Who cares about sports? ↗

— Lisa Loeb

#about #always #around #because #cares

Usually a poem takes shape accoustically - a line or a pair of lines will repeat itself in my ear. ↗

— Thomas Lynch

#itself #line #lines #pair #poem

My table is now brightly, now dimly lighted. Its temperature varies. It may receive an ink stain. One of its legs may be broken. It may be repaired, polished, and replaced part by part. But, for me, it remains the table at which I daily write. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#broken #daily #dimly #i #ink

Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair, supports not thee. ↗

— David Mallet

#despair #fears #fell #human #human soul