#roy

Poverty is a solved problem - all they have to do is abolish taxes and regulations which cripple those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women and destroy their productive capacity, then stand back and watch the economy boom. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#back #boom #capable #capacity #cripple

When I, who is called a "weapon" or a "monster", fight a real monster, I can fully realize that I am just a "human". ↗

— Hiromu Arakawa

#fullmetal-alchemist #psychological #roy-mustang #psychology

I had a very unusual contract. Most artists actually pay for their record dates and it comes out of their royalties. I paid for nothing. ↗

— Jo Stafford

#artists #comes #contract #dates #had

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. ↗

— Madame de Stael

#destroying #end #eternity #fear #love

It is only when the hearts of the Women are in the mud, that the People are destroyed. ↗

— Morning Star

#hearts #mud #only #people #women

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#century #destroy #dream #every #family

Well, I have a CBE and I accepted it with glee because it's not bestowed on you by the royal family, it's not bestowed on you by the government, you have to be nominated by the public. ↗

— Rod Stewart

#because #bestowed #family #glee #government

My interests were aroused, and my faith in the cliches of the subject destroyed, as so often with other subjects, by the discussions with my friend, Aaron Director. ↗

— George Stigler

#aroused #cliches #destroyed #director #discussions

They were heading out to the middle of the bay - the Gulf - that's another thing that became kind of standard practice, we didn't hurry the destroyers around the beach any more, when it got dark, we'd take 'em out thirty or forty miles out in the middle of the Tonkin Gulf. ↗

— James Stockdale

#any #around #bay #beach #became

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak. ↗

— August Strindberg

#cannot #consumes #destroys #end #ever