#par

I remember meeting President Obama and looking at him, thinking, 'Damn, this dude is really our president. He really went out and did it!' If you look at stories like that, and other stories that I'm sure you could compare to, it's just about freeing your mind and taking those guards down. ↗

— Jamie Foxx

#compare #could #damn #did #down

The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones. ↗

— Northrop Frye

#ancient #back #being #convention #due

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself; you want to try even harder to make it work. ↗

— Princess Diana

#divorced #especially #even #had #harder

There can be a lot done if you are not so particular about who gets credit for it. ↗

— John Freeman

#credit #done #gets #lot #particular

As a person, I'm not that hopeful, but somehow the hopeful part of me reveals itself through my songs. ↗

— David Friedman

#i #itself #me #part #person

The education of my brother and myself was of paramount importance to my parents, and in addition to their strong encouragement, they were prepared to make any sacrifice to further our intellectual development. ↗

— Jerome Isaac Friedman

#any #brother #development #education #encouragement

Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar. ↗

— Robert Frost

#another #away #cannot #life #master

And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me, if you'll pardon me, American presidents reward virtue? Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout? ↗

— Milton Friedman

#appointed #basis #choose #clout #communist

Now you watch the parades and processions of hopeful and despairing people walking outside your tomb. They are all looking for the answer to the problem you know so well. ↗

— Lynette Fromme

#despairing #hopeful #know #looking #now

In music you have people exposing this very vulnerable part of themselves, and you also have the lifestyle is so fast that oftentimes people search for whatever the easiest way to feel relaxed in the midst of all of it, or the easiest way to have energy. ↗

— John Frusciante

#easiest #easiest way #energy #exposing #fast