#ace

The night I announced I was getting married, Daddy paced for hours on the porch. ↗

— Loretta Lynn

#daddy #getting #getting married #hours #i

When I'd tell people I like country music they'd get this look on their faces. People were kind of ashamed of country. ↗

— Loretta Lynn

#country #country music #faces #get #i

It's taken me years to embrace the softer elements of who I am and let that shine some. ↗

— Shelby Lynne

#elements #embrace #i #i am #me

I'm sure I have a process, but it mostly takes place in my dreams. ↗

— William H. Macy

#i #mostly #place #process #sure

The greatest potential for control the ends to exist at the point where action takes place. ↗

— Ninon de L'Enclos

#control #ends #exist #greatest #place

It took me way beyond what I knew, into places of which I was totally scared, but as I became less frightened, I welcomed new ways of thinking and approaching something. It made me an infinitely richer person, and I think a better musician. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#became #better #beyond #frightened #i

In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#almost #between #conflict #connection #decades

I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#committee #doing #going #humanity #i

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#be strong #brave #build #defeat #enough

Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#accorded #advance #been #century #contribution