#traps

It's an appeal as old as America and its presidency: This is an extraordinary country populated by hard-working, big-dreaming, freedom-loving people graced by God when they're not pulling themselves up by the bootstraps. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#appeal #bootstraps #country #extraordinary #freedom-loving

Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

#capable #capitalists #himself #his #lifting

Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps. ↗

— Emo Philips

#just #leather #mornings #seem #some

Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps. ↗

— Emo Philips

#chewing #just #leather #mornings #some

Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but it is doubtful if they ever get out. ↗

— Lord Jeffrey

#doubtful #easily #ever #get #like

You have the right to kill me, but you don't have the right to judge me. That's life. There's nobility in that. There's focus. It's genuine. It's crystal and it's pure and it's available to everybody, so just shut your traps and put down your McDonalds, your vaccines, your Us Weekly, your TMZ and the rest of it. ↗

— Charlie Sheen

#crystal #down #everybody #focus #genuine

Less than an hour before he'd congratulated himself on escaping all the traps of Earth, all the snares of Man. Not knowing that the greatest trap of all, the final and the fatal trap, lay on this present planet. ↗

— Clifford D. Simak

#earth #escaping #fatal #final #greatest

They established their patriotic credentials long ago, and are either supportive of the Bush agenda or know when to keep their traps shut. ↗

— Bill O'Reilly

#ago #bush #credentials #either #established

Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own bootstraps. ↗

— Peter Abrahams

#carried #changed #dream #lost #magic

Now, in Texas, we believe in the rugged individual. Texas may be the one place where people actually still have bootstraps, and we expect folks to pull themselves up by them. But we also recognize there are some things we can't do alone. We have to come together and invest in opportunity today for prosperity tomorrow. ↗

— Julian Castro

#alone #also #believe #bootstraps #come