#vera

We gathered all the stock we could find, and made an attempt to move. We left many of our horses and cattle in Wallowa. We lost several hundred in crossing the river. ↗

— Chief Joseph

#cattle #could #crossing #find #gathered

For the first time ever, overweight people outnumber average people in America. Doesn't that make overweight the average then? Last month you were fat, now you're average - hey, let's get a pizza! ↗

— Jay Leno

#average #average people #ever #fat #first

God isn't really interested in our batting averages. ↗

— Dale Murphy

#batting #god #interested #our #really

Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual. ↗

— Thomas de Quincey

#beverage #coarse #favorite #intellectual #naturally

I called the album 'The Chemo' because it seems like the industry and music overall is dying slowly. ↗

— Busta Rhymes

#because #called #dying #i #industry

I think if you've held onto a character for several years and then you're getting rid of that character, it's going to be traumatic. ↗

— Dominic Monaghan

#getting #going #held #i #i think

The average GOP presidential vote in these last five elections was 44.5 percent. In the last three, it was 48.1 percent. Give Romney an extra point for voter disillusionment with Obama, and a half-point for being better financed than his predecessors. It still strikes me as a path to narrow defeat. ↗

— Bill Kristol

#being #better #defeat #disillusionment #elections

On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#developing #developing world #global #global warming #going

It was a presidential election year, and as a member of a consortium of Ivy League radio stations, we participated in 'network' coverage of election night. ↗

— Andrea Mitchell

#coverage #election #ivy #ivy league #league

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible. ↗

— William James

#chosen #equally #ethical #out #possible