#social

The Bush Administration claims there is a Social Security crisis only to distract Americans from its serious mismanagement of the federal budget. ↗

— Mark Dayton

#budget #bush #bush administration #claims #crisis

I wasn't really the most charming person, socially - it took me a long time to develop my people skills - but the one place I was always comfortable was onstage, acting or singing. ↗

— Zooey Deschanel

#always #charming #comfortable #develop #i

To be in the EU, it means to have same rules of... for economy, for social life, to be together in the majority of European countries. ↗

— Aleksander Kwasniewski

#economy #eu #european #european countries #life

What concerns me, is the general social tendency to enforce a level, above which nothing rises and stands out. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#concerns #enforce #general #level #me

Our people can draw on the tremendous strides made in recent years, not only in terms of advancing themselves spiritually and materially, but also in having weathered social and economic turbulence, triggered, in the main, by factors not of their own creation. ↗

— Denzil Douglas

#also #creation #draw #economic #factors

Reagan didn't socialize with the press. He spent his evenings with Nancy, watching TV with dinner trays. But he knew that to transcend, you can't condescend. ↗

— Maureen Dowd

#evenings #his #knew #nancy #press

When he heard laughter, before he could think or feel anything, his heart would already be beating like he’d sprinted twenty yards. As the beating slowly normalized he’d think of how his heart, unlike him, was safely contained, away from the world, behind bone and inside skin, held by muscles and arteries in its place, carefully off-center, as if to artfully assert itself as source and creator, having grown the chest to hide in and to muffle and absorb—and, later, after innovating the brain and face and limbs, to convert into productive behavior—its uncontrollable, indefensible, unexplainable, embarrassing squeezing of itself. ↗

— Tao Lin

#social-anxiety #art

The family was not only the social unit, but also the unit of government. ↗

— Charles Eastman

#family #government #only #social #unit

But apart from the military measures, security measures, of course, Afghanistan needs great help for building up its social life, its economic life. It has become a very poor country, neglected for many years. ↗

— Bulent Ecevit

#apart #become #building #country #course

All social workers want is to get everyone involved in a programme. Because a programme provides full employment for three generations of social workers. And they mess up. ↗

— David Eddings

#employment #everyone #full #generations #get