#serving

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#anything #conservative #conserve #conserving #could

We're looking at Earth science, observing our planet. Also space science, looking at the ozone in the atmosphere around our Earth. Also looking at life science. And on a human level, using ourselves as test subjects. ↗

— Laurel Clark

#around #atmosphere #earth #human #level

There are people walking around the streets of Kansas City who are unemployed, while one of our largest employers is not only sending jobs aboard, but then turning around and making a statement about preserving jobs. ↗

— Emanuel Cleaver

#about #around #city #employers #jobs

The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#could #feels #his #invests #model

I never studied directing and I never really thought about doing it, and then I just found myself in that situation and tried it. I like to be observing everything else, and I get self-conscious in front of the camera. ↗

— Sofia Coppola

#camera #directing #doing #else #everything

New Labour was the most short-sighted, self-serving, incompetent, useless, and ineffective government that Britain has ever known. Make no mistake, Labour's economic policies were a national security liability. ↗

— Liam Fox

#economic #economic policies #ever #government #incompetent

I talk about myself in the third person all the time. I don't live my life in the way someone like you does. I live my life completely serving only my work and my fans. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#completely #does #fans #i #life

I personally believe that there's going to be a good case for the government preserving some type of guarantee to make sure that people have the ability to borrow to finance a house even in a very damaging recession. I think there's going to be a good case for that. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

#believe #borrow #case #damaging #even

The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft. ↗

— Lawrence Hargrave

#both #conditions #most #observing #ordinary

As a Christian, there is no other part of the New Right ideology that concerns me more than its self-serving misuse of religious faith. ↗

— Mark Hatfield

#concerns #faith #ideology #me #misuse