#pete

Is puppy love the reason so many Americans are blind to the incompetence and waste of Republicans - who at a minimum are supposed to be good money managers - running Iraq reconstruction? ↗

— Margaret Carlson

#good #incompetence #iraq #love #managers

I left this morning saying ‘I love you’ as if setting out for some unknown country instead of the corner shop. I wanted you to be sure, in case this time - out of, say, 10,000 departures I never made it back: although after 50 years together, 2 countries, 3 children, and several former journeys that would put this one to shame you’d think there’d be no need to pause on my own doorstep, suddenly afraid of the distance between us, of your absolute beauty, of the growing aloneness when I clicked the latch. ↗

— Peter Bland

#peter-bland #beauty

I'm a huge Obama fan. I think it's such an unbelievably great thing to have a President who's competent and not insane. ↗

— Randy Cohen

#fan #great #great thing #huge #i

There is a curious relationship between a candidate and the reporters who cover him. It can be affected by small things like a competent press staff, enough seats, sandwiches and briefings and the ability to understand deadlines. ↗

— Ronald Steel

#affected #all things #between #briefings #candidate

The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience. ↗

— John Dickey

#competence #conscience #education #end #made

We believe 'Peter Rabbit' because Beatrix Potter believes it. You have to. ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

#believe #believes #peter #potter #rabbit

There's Eddie's conviction and his lyrics and his ideals, and he can just rock straight out. His vocals are incredible. And we all are really competent musicians. ↗

— Mike McCready

#conviction #eddie #his #ideals #incredible

Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else. ↗

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

#allowed #because #competent #consistently #else

From the test situations which were used to reveal fears, it was found that Peter showed even more marked fear responses to the rabbit than to the rat. ↗

— Mary C. Jones

#fear #fears #found #marked #more

Peter was 2 years and 10 months old when we began to study him. He was afraid of a white rat, and this fear extended to a rabbit, a fur coat, a feather, cotton wool, etc., but not to wooden blocks and similar toys. ↗

— Mary C. Jones

#began #blocks #coat #cotton #etc