#poo

Happiness consists in activity. It is a running steam, not a stagnant pool. ↗

— John Mason Good

#consists #happiness #pool #running #stagnant

We enter the government essentially in a hotel that is on fire. We're throwing people from the windows into the pool to save their lives and this is the evaluation of the Olympic diving committee: Well, the splash was too big. ↗

— Austan Goolsbee

#committee #diving #enter #essentially #evaluation

When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which. ↗

— E. Y. Harburg

#idle #just #know #never #poor

How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky. ↗

— E. T. A. Hoffmann

#blue #blue sky #build #clear #dam

I did 'Formula 51' because I got to run around Liverpool in a kilt, with golf clubs. ↗

— Samuel L. Jackson

#because #clubs #did #formula #golf

There's a wider agenda that speaks to what the Democratic Party has historically stood for, which are economic rights for those who are struggling in the middle class, concern for the poor, for economic justice for those who are marginalized in our society. ↗

— Mike McCurry

#class #concern #democratic #democratic party #economic

The saddest fact of climate change - and the chief reason we should be concerned about finding a proper response - is that the countries it will hit hardest are already among the poorest and most long-suffering. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#already #among #change #chief #climate

Though I be poor, I'm honest. ↗

— Thomas Middleton

#i #poor #though

If you try hard enough, you can bend the spoon; you can shift reality. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#enough #hard #reality #shift #spoon

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it. ↗

— Robert Motherwell

#important #less #life #much #poor