#serving

I need just be a bayonet, a bayonet named Diving Punishment. I wish I'd been born a storm. Or a menace. Or a single grenade. No heart, no tears, just as a terrible gale'd have been good. If [by doing this] I become that, then so be it. ↗

— Kohta Hirano

#god-s-will #personification #philosophy #regret #religion

With the sugar market hysteria, the people are obviously worried and expect higher inflation. When this hysteria subsides, which we're probably observing, then I hope that people will also get less worried about the future of inflation. ↗

— Marek Belka

#also #expect #future #get #higher

Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#decay #life #pickle #preserving #spiritual

A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#hope #i #interesting #lot #memoirs

I believe keeping our promises should be our highest priority and that means saving Social Security and Medicare while preserving the American dream for our children and grandchildren. ↗

— Tom Coburn

#american dream #believe #children #dream #grandchildren

It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#interpreting #observe #observing #possible #without

I think the potential for the program at the risk of sounding self-serving is large, some would say even limitless, so I'm excited about it and I think it can even pass next year. ↗

— Harold Ford

#even #excited #i #i think #large

The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#cooperate #discovered #essential #ever #free

Preserving parks and open spaces is a winner because it doesn't need to be explained to everyday Americans. ↗

— Frank Luntz

#everyday #explained #need #open #open spaces

Watching baseball under the lights is like observing dogs indoors, at a pedigree show. In both instances, the environment is too controlled to suit the species. ↗

— Melvin Maddocks

#both #controlled #dogs #environment #indoors