#traps

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots. ↗

— Thurgood Marshall

#because #bent #boots #bootstraps #down

The first thing he noticed was that Las Vegas seemed to have invented a new school of functional architecture, 'The Gilded Mousetrap School' he thought it might be called, whose main purpose was to channel the customer-mouse into the central gambling trap whether he wanted the cheese or not. ↗

— Ian Fleming

#las-vegas #traps #architecture

It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps. ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#equality #fair #reasonable #work-ethic #equality

If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire. ↗

— George Monbiot

#bootstraps #hard-work #wealth #dreams

Well, it was just, the bars was all just like the bamboo roofs and everything. You know. As I say, to me, it's completely spoiled all, all these places now. Make them all just tourist traps. ↗

— David Walker

#bars #completely #everything #i #just

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