#un

My husband is such a healthy eater. Except when it comes to sweets. He never consumes anything except fruit until noon. And then from noon on he might have some brown rice and some tofu, and then, come eight or nine at night, he orders three mud-pie double-chocolate pieces of cake and eats all three of them. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#brown #cake #come #comes #consumes

In Lincoln's day a President's religion was a very private affair. There were no public prayer meetings, no attempts to woo the Religious Right. Few of Lincoln's countrymen knew anything at all of his religious beliefs. ↗

— David Herbert Donald

#anything #attempts #beliefs #countrymen #day

But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do. ↗

— Sam Donaldson

#crops #did #farm #farmer #gee

The word 'Spanx' was funny. It made people laugh. No one ever forgot it. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#forgot #funny #laugh #made #people

When I cut the feet out of my pantyhose that one time, I saw it as my sign. I had been visualizing being self employed prior to this happening. It was my mental preparation meeting the opportunity in that moment. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#being #cut #employed #feet #had

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#counted #counting #does #enough #every

Within the first year of launching my company, Spanx, I decided to go over to England and cold-call Harrods, Harvey Nichols, and Selfridges the same way I had cold-called Neiman Marcus, Saks, Nordstrom, and Bloomingdale's here in the United States. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#decided #england #first #go #had

And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it. ↗

— John Donne

#direct #doubt #earth #element #fire

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run? ↗

— John Donne

#call #curtains #dost #fool #lovers

Our ports are a vital link in national security and it is extremely dangerous to be considering their sale to the United Arab Emirates government. ↗

— Joe Donnelly

#considering #dangerous #emirates #extremely #government