#wi

You never think the universe will reward your first choice - it just doesn't work like that. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#first #just #like #never #reward

If we are to meet the growing electricity demand in the United States without significantly increasing emissions of greenhouse gases, we must maintain a diverse supply of electricity, and nuclear power must be part of that mix. ↗

— Judy Biggert

#diverse #electricity #emissions #gases #greenhouse

Right now, too many women who reach retirement age find themselves widowed or single, relying on their Social Security check for over half of their income. ↗

— Judy Biggert

#check #find #half #income #many

For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#any #believe #communal #democratic #firmly

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#bit #colored #fight #hard #long

I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures or that the Jewish song is better than the song of my neighbor. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#claim #culture #cultures #i #jewish

Laws on killing, even God's demands, didn't allow for peace. Not always. There'd still be pain; missing that child would break her parents' hearts. But what Helen knew, what she'd seen in those woods, would be too much for them, for everybody. ↗

— Alan Heathcock

#justice-without-mercy #loss-of-faith #retribution #revenge #the-big-peace

Drugs will get you out of your own way, but we lived it, and that's dangerous. It can actually turn around on itself and steal your soul, and that's what happened. ↗

— Steven Tyler

#around #dangerous #get #happened #itself

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

#beings #cannot #find #human #human beings

My wife and I had decided not to let anybody take pictures of our home because it was just the last place on earth we had that was unscathed. But people have climbed over the fence; they've taken aerial shots. They've gotten my address and put it on the Internet. ↗

— Steven Tyler

#aerial #anybody #because #climbed #decided