#pet

At the same time, the Reagan Administration assured that the main elements of policymaking were in the hands of competent loyalists, thus assuring a successful launch and a highly successful first year. ↗

— Richard V. Allen

#assured #assuring #competent #elements #first

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet. ↗

— Woody Allen

#case #definitely #everything #exists #i

Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent. ↗

— Aaron Allston

#first #incompetent #lawyers #refuge

You know, I'm really not that competent at describing things musically. ↗

— Paul Thomas Anderson

#describing #i #know #musically #really

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself. ↗

— Walter Anderson

#bad #character #choose #defines #gift

When you have energy companies like Shell and British Petroleum, both of which are perhaps represented in this room, saying there is a problem with excess carbon dioxide emission, I think we ought to listen. ↗

— James Baker

#british #carbon #carbon dioxide #companies #dioxide

My daughter's the greatest thing that's happened to me in my life and she turned me into a more responsible man, as opposed to just someone who's a perpetual teenager, thinking you're a man when you're not. ↗

— Adam Ant

#greatest #greatest thing #happened #into #just

Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain. ↗

— Diane Arbus

#apt #change #children #craving #full

Later in July I'm going to be promoting and putting on a boxing show of amateur fighters from July 21st through the 28th where one hundred kids will be fighting and competing with each other to see who's going to be the best. ↗

— Alexis Arguello

#best #boxing #competing #each #fighters

It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what I was getting into. ↗

— Lance Armstrong

#athlete #competing #country #getting #had