#ties

No society lies nearer to the cyclonic path of the forces of world change than the United States, and few societies are more intellectually aware of the nature of the issues that have to be faced. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#change #faced #few #forces #intellectually

I still have the shirt I wore my first time on Johnny Carson's show. Only now I use it as a tablecloth at dinner parties. It was very blousy. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#dinner #dinner parties #first #first time #i

So the - the part of the problem is not just the rhetoric. It's the fact that we - we're so polarized in what we've done to each other as parties over the last thirty years in redistricting that it's very, very hard to overcome your own constituencies and move to the middle. ↗

— Howard Dean

#done #each #fact #hard #just

Freedom does not come without a price. We may sometimes take for granted the many liberties we enjoy in America, but they have all been earned through the ultimate sacrifice paid by so many of the members of our armed forces. ↗

— Charlie Dent

#armed #armed forces #been #come #does

I've also said you don't rule any options out, because if you are in public life because you want to make a difference... obviously, you have to be open to those kind of possibilities. ↗

— John Thune

#any #because #difference #i #kind

I have never started a novel - I mean except the first, when I was starting a novel just to start a novel - I've never written one without rereading Victory. It opens up the possibilities of a novel. It makes it seem worth doing. ↗

— Joan Didion

#except #first #i #just #makes

I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities. ↗

— Walt Disney

#cartoon #cartoon characters #characters #each #full

Airlines are interesting. They not only favor celebrities, they court them. ↗

— Phil Donahue

#celebrities #court #favor #interesting #only

I was kind of like chasing my tail and trying to do the right thing, and was a little bit stupid. Or irresponsible, which is the same thing I guess. It's just been really busy and I had a lot of great opportunities. ↗

— Robert Downey, Jr.

#bit #busy #chasing #do the right thing #great

While we believe there are fruitful opportunities to update and improve old rules, we do not want to set up a review process that could create a litigation morass. ↗

— Fred Thompson

#could #create #fruitful #improve #litigation