#supported

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked. ↗

— Anais Nin

#bird #coffee #escape #fire #i

There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America. ↗

— Barack Obama

#america #defending #iraq #opposed #patriots

Everyone town of 100,000 in the United States should have a Classical Theater supported by the town, or the state of the county, or the Federal Government, as they have in every civilized country. ↗

— Tony Randall

#classical #country #county #every #everyone

In the 1980s America reacted to the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. We supported a war that left a nation torn to pieces. And as the last Soviet tank left the country, so did we. ↗

— Simon Sinek

#america #country #did #invasion #last

People who supported Obama felt like they formed a relationship, that they were being spoken to. The way that campaign worked and the way he's worked during his first term is to make people feel like he's grasping their hand, whether it's by tweeting or email, moments after an event, sometimes during an event. It makes people relate to him. ↗

— James Spader

#being #campaign #during #email #event

A significant piece of the wealth that the NFL owners garner is a result of the enormous TV revenues they get - and those revenues are supported by a legislatively granted exemption from the antitrust laws that has been made applicable to sports leagues, primarily the NFL. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#applicable #been #enormous #exemption #garner

I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#along #always #audience #concerned #faith

President Bush remained undeterred by the massive display of American opposition, even though much of it came from the hundreds of thousands of voters who supported him by voting for Nader. ↗

— Jon Stewart

#bush #came #display #even #him

Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children without the help of multiple adults, making for an unsupported life. ↗

— Martha Beck

#been #children #help #homes #industrial

Yet the effort to inform the public also encouraged responsible public discussion that succeeded in developing a consensus for the measured approach that many scientists supported. ↗

— Paul Berg

#approach #consensus #developing #discussion #effort