#wrap

To be interested in the public good we must be disinterested, that is, not interested in goods in which our personal selves are wrapped up. ↗

— George H. Mead

#good #goods #interested #must #not interested

I never wore a tie voluntarily, even though I was forced to wear one for photos when I was young and for official events at school. I used to wrap my tie in a newspaper, and whenever the teacher checked I would quickly put it on again. I'm not used to it. Most Bolivians don't wear ties. ↗

— Evo Morales

#checked #even #events #forced #i

President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people. ↗

— Ralph Nader

#backs #demands #elected #getting #government

Few Indians only had breech cloths, most being wrapped in buffalo robes, otherwise quite naked. ↗

— Zebulon Pike

#buffalo #few #had #indians #most

My happiest moment is the day they call wrap and I'm free. I'm not looking back. ↗

— Brad Pitt

#call #day #free #happiest #i

Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used. And don't try to give me that nerd argument that your heart is a 'Batman' with a limited-edition silver bat-erang and therefore if it stays in its original packing it increases in value. ↗

— Amy Poehler

#action figure #argument #batman #figure #give

Claiming that you have got the truth wrapped up does breed violence and intolerance. ↗

— Timothy Radcliffe

#claiming #does #got #intolerance #truth

Pollock also... wanted one to be wrapped in the painting. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

#painting #pollock #wanted #wrapped

A newspaper that you're not reading can be used for anything; and the same people didn't think it was immoral to wrap their garbage in newspaper. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

#garbage #immoral #newspaper #people #reading

Any Southern nationalist movement, especially one that wraps itself in the Confederate flag, is going to be viewed with suspicion, given the historical record. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#confederate #especially #flag #given #going