"Actually we're not hearing a lot about gas prices right now from constituents. And I think that reflects a growing understanding on the part of the public, that there really is very little that the government and politicians can do."

-- John Yarmuth

#Thinking Quotes #Government Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“One of the biggest lessons I also learned from living with Elvis and loving him for so many years was that we're all human, and no matter what level one has reached in terms of fame, they're still human beings.”
“The form of my poem rises out of a past that so overwhelms the present with its worth and vision that I'm at a loss to explain my delusion that there exist any real links between that past and a future worthy of it.”

Source : Hart Crane (1965). “The letters of Hart Crane, 1916-1932”
“When you work in a different language you are not so attached to the words.”
“What makes the meaning of life is people, so you try to be good to people immediately around you and in your broader community. So a lot of my projects are about how I can affect the world in the hundreds of millions.”
“I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.”
“I like the fact that I have good old-fashioned British teeth with a big gap.”
“The ones that make it complicated never get congratulated”
“The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.”

Source : William Makepeace Thackeray (2015). “Vanity Fair”, p.15, Oxford University Press, USA

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