#vin

The Texas Energy Office's Loan Star Program has reduced building energy consumption and taxpayers' energy costs through the efficient operation of public buildings, saving taxpayers more than $172 million through energy efficiency projects. ↗

— Rosa DeLauro

#buildings #consumption #costs #efficiency #efficient

If we become too scared to confront the chief problems of our time, there is no hope of ever solving them. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#chief #confront #ever #hope #our

Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it. ↗

— William Blackstone

#capable #courage #formed #living #living alone

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#fixed #good #intent #plans #traveler

A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness, leaving her without support, respect or professional counsel. ↗

— Elizabeth Blackwell

#blank #counsel #faces #forms #her

No, I mean we'd all definitely involved in the music business someway or another, because we're all living with it, and in it, and also we've got all sorts of things we would like to do. ↗

— John Deacon

#another #because #business #definitely #got

His imagination conceived and bore - worlds; but nothing in these worlds became alive until he discovered its true and living name. The name was the breath of life; and, sooner or later, he invariably found it. ↗

— Algernon H. Blackwood

#became #bore #breath #conceived #discovered

I tend not to trust people who live in very tidy houses. I know that on the surface there is nothing wrong with a person being well-ordered and disciplined. Nothing, except that it leaves the impression of that person having lived in the confines of a stark institution which, although he or she has long since left, remains within. ↗

— Jack Dee

#being #confines #disciplined #except #having

I am living proof that the American dream still exists. It is still alive and well. There is only one trick, you have to be willing to roll up your sleeves and work very, very hard. ↗

— Paula Deen

#am #american #american dream #dream #exists

I don't want to spend my life not having good food going into my pie hole. That hole was made for pies. ↗

— Paula Deen

#going #good #good food #having #hole