A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.
Lady Bird Johnson
Recitation: by Male by Female
In wartime, you were just used to not having anything.
Jimmy Savile
YouAnythingUsedJustWartimeWere
I feel like the sky in my mind is bigger when I meditate. It helps you fight the classic battles we're all fighting: trying to find love, trying to find satisfaction in your career.
Jim James
LoveSkyFightMindFightingYou
The anarchists, on behalf of the proletariat, therefore consider it necessary to show the proletariat that it will have to win a gigantic battle before it realizes its goals.
Johann Most
GoalsWinBattleWillShowBefore
It's getting hard to keep up with all of the news from Washington - witch hunts, conspiracy theories and Republicans tearing each other apart over who is ideologically pure and who is apostate. It's a real set of carnival sideshows.
Andrew Rosenthal
NewsWashingtonHardRealOverPure
I'm a very slow and ponderous reader, but I'm dogged.
John Lithgow
SlowVeryReaderDogged
When you have no money in New York, you're living in a shoebox, and it's freezing. When you have no money in L.A., you're living in a slightly larger shoebox, and you can go outside and feel okay about your life for a minute.
Anna Kendrick
LifeMoneyNew YorkFeelYouLiving
The trouble with blaming powerless people is that although it's not nearly as scary as blaming the powerful, it does miss the point. Poor people do not shut down factories... Poor people didn't decide to use 'contract employees' because they cost less and don't get any benefits.
Molly Ivins
PeopleEmployeesPowerfulDownPoor
If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
PeopleSillyDoneNothingNeverGet
Growing up, I didn't have a lot and always wanted things. But I was too prideful to ask for anything; I always worked for it.
DeMar DeRozan
Growing UpGrowingAskUpAnything
I wanted to be a doctor since I was five.
Debi Thomas
DoctorFiveWantedSince
Every story has its demands.
Clint Eastwood
StoryEveryDemands
Samuel Johnson called it the vanity of human wishes, and Buddhists talk about the endless cycle of desire. Social psychologists say we get trapped on a hedonic treadmill. What they all mean is that we wish, plan and work for things that we think will make us happy, but when we finally get them, we aren't nearly as happy as we thought we'd be.
Alison Gopnik
WorkHappyThinkThoughtWishPlan
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