#ros

High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#dependency #fire #fling #flood #forces

I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#certainly #derived #down #i #individual

Polls? Nah... they're for strippers and cross country skiers. ↗

— Sarah Palin

#cross #cross country #nah #polls #skiers

Washington has got to, across the board, lower taxes for small businesses so that our mom and pops can reinvest and hire people, so that our businesses can thrive. ↗

— Sarah Palin

#board #businesses #got #hire #lower

Companies should be able to share specific threat information with the government without the prospect of lawsuits hanging over their head. ↗

— Leon Panetta

#companies #government #hanging #head #information

In this century, the 21st century, the U.S. recognizes our prosperity and our security depends even more on the Asia-Pacific region. ↗

— Leon Panetta

#century #depends #even #more #our

You know, as director of the CIA, I got an awful lot of intelligence about all the horrible things that could go on across the world. ↗

— Leon Panetta

#across #awful #cia #could #director

The participation of our country in the eurozone is a guarantee for the country's monetary stability. It is a driver of financial prosperity. ↗

— Lucas Papademos

#driver #eurozone #financial #guarantee #monetary

Greece is at a crucial crossroads. The choices that are made and the policies that are enforced will have a decisive impact on the wellbeing of Greeks. The way forward will not be easy but the problems can be solved, and will be solved, if there is unity, co-operation and consensus. ↗

— Lucas Papademos

#co-operation #consensus #crossroads #crucial #decisive

It was not just that Ross Macdonald taught us how to write; he did something much more, he taught us how to read, and how to think about life, and maybe, in some small, but mattering way, how to live. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#did #how #just #life #live