“Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to publick opinion. This is the weak point of our defenses, and the part to which the enemies of the system will direct all their attacks. Opinion can be so perverted as to cause the false to seem the true; the enemy, a friend, and the friend, an enemy; the best interests of the nation to appear insignificant, and trifles of moment; in a word, the right the wrong, and the wrong the right.” StatesMomentsSeemsGovernmentGivenNationsCausesInterestUnitedOpinionEnemyBreakUnited StatesSocietyConsequenceDirectWeakDefenseInsignificantTriflesWeak Points Author:James F. Cooper
“I have a lot of respect for President Obama. I consider him a friend. I disagree with him on issues like the extension of tax breaks that Bush initiated. But I think history will judge a President Obama a lot better than many other contemporaries, given the fact that he came into office at a time when this country was in terrible, terrible shape.” ThinkingCountryFactsGivenPresidentBreakIssuesJudgingTerribleShapesTaxesOfficeDisagreePresident ObamaExtensionsTax Breaks Author:Bernie Sanders
“Our business in life is not to get ahead of others but to get ahead of ourselves; to break our own records; to outstrip our yesterdays by our todays; to bear our trials more beautifully than we ever dreamed we could; to give as we never have given; to do our work with more force and a finer finish than ever. This is the true idea: to get ahead of ourselves.” GivingIdeasTodayLife IsGivenForceBreakRecordsBearsYesterdayTrialsGet Ahead Author:Carl Holmes
“The things that are ours cannot be given away, or taken away, or lost. We break our hearts, all of us, trying to keep things that do not belong to us — and to which we have no right.” TryingHeartLostGivenBreakTaken Author:Myrtle Reed
“I say: liberate yourself as far as you can, and you have done your part; for it is not given to every one to break through all limits, or, more expressively, not to everyone is that a limit which is a limit for the rest. Consequently, do not tire yourself with toiling at the limits of others; enough if you tear down yours. He who overturns one of his limits may have shown others the way and the means; the overturning of their limits remains their affair.” IfsWayMayMeanDoneEnoughGivenBreakTearsLimitsRemainsAffairTireAnarchismBreak ThroughToiling Author:Max Stirner
“Even if Mays is given every conceivable break on every unknown - defense, base running, clutch hitting - his performance still would not match Mantle's.” IfsStillsRunningGivenBreakPerformancesBaseballDefenseHittingClutch Book:The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract Source: The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract
“I've given parties that have made Indian rajahs green with envy. I've had prima donnas break $10,000 engagements to come to my smallest dinners. When you were still playing button back in Ohio, I entertained on a cruising trip that was so much fun that I had to sink my yacht to make my guests go home.” MadeStillsHomeGivenFunPartyBreakGreenDinnerEnvyRecognitionIndianEngagementGuestsSmallestPopularityButtonsOhioYachtPrima Donnas Book:The Crack-up Source: The Crack-up
“Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.” IdeasHomeHandsJobsGivenFeltGoalHoursWorkViewsBreakImpossibleShareDrinkOfficeUltimateCoffeeEach DayGossipDistractionDesksFlexibleVaryDeadlineSnacksPajamasWorkaholicCrescendoGoofsOffice JobsCoffee Break Author:Diane Ackerman
“A purpose gives meaning to life. It is like the hub in a wheel -- with every spoke fitted into it to make a strong and perfect circle. Without such a hub, spokes will not radiate evenly and your wheel will lack strength, will tend to break apart on the first good bump it hits. Given a strong hub, a strong purpose, a person can take a surprising number of shocks and bumps on the outside rim without sustaining permanent damage.” GivingFirstsPersonsPurposeStrongGivenPerfectNumbersBreakCirclesPermanentDamageWheelsShockSpokesSurprisingBumpsSustainingMeaning LifeRimsHub Author:Oveta Culp Hobby
“I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help you, that's a rural heart. Your car breaks down in the middle of Iowa or somewhere, or Tennessee where I'm from, people want to help each other. Given each opportunity, you see how people come together.” PeopleWantHeartHelpingTogetherAsksOpportunityGivenBreakMiddleCarStrangeThirdsBreaking DownManhattanIowaTennesseeHelping Each Other Author:Rodney Atkins
“I feel badly for them, not sorry, but badly, because I think they've been given poor breaks and difficult, not sufficient opportunity to be who they are and sort of put into that straitjacket with the tie, and all of the things that is really built like a straitjacket when you look at it, and tied up in a sort of a way where their purpose had to be slimmed down to just certain things, and function pared down to the linear, and it is very difficult for men.” ThinkingMenWayFeelsLooksPurposeCertainOpportunityGivenDifficultPoorBreakBuiltFunctionSorryTiesSufficientTiedLinearTied UpNot Sorry Author:Maya Tiwari
“It is given to few persons to keep this secret well. Those who lay down rules too often break them, and the safest we are able to give is to listen much, to speak little, and to say nothing that that will ever give ground or regret.” GivingWellsLittlesPersonsAbleSpeakGivenSecretBreakRegretConversationLays Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“It must not simply be taken for granted that a given set of ill-assorted people, for no other reason than because it is Christmas, will be joyful to be reunited and to break bread together.” PeopleReasonTogetherGivenBreakTakenIllBreadChristmasGrantedJoyfulTaken For GrantedReunitedAssorted Author:M. F. K. Fisher