#vale

Louisiana loses 30 miles a year off our coast. We lost 100 miles last year off our coast thanks to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. We have lost a size of land equivalent to the entire state of Rhode Island. ↗

— Bobby Jindal

#entire #equivalent #hurricanes #hurricanes katrina #island

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#conclude #equivalent #eyes #facts #female

We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep. ↗

— Erica Jong

#ambivalent #babies #being #being human #best

Ambivalence about family responsibilities has a long history in the corporate world. ↗

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#ambivalence #corporate #corporate world #family #history

There are very few men and women in whom a Universalist feeling is altogether lacking; its prevalence suggests that it must be part of our inborn nature and have a place in Nature's scheme of evolution. ↗

— Arthur Keith

#evolution #feeling #few #few men #inborn

The nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalent enough to establish its usefulness without being overwhelmed by the inertia of the orthodox system. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#arise #become #being #being overwhelmed #enough

I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries. ↗

— Stephen King

#big #big mac #equivalent #fries #i

He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on? ↗

— Stephen King

#boots #could #died #dying #equivalent

The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master. ↗

— Sophie Swetchine

#his #master #mind #soul #those

I'm Valentino Rossi. And I want to be a person, not an icon. ↗

— Valentino Rossi

#icon #person #valentino #want