#ace

It is within your power at this very moment not only to consumate an act of enlightened statesmanship, but, as the instrument of the Almighty, to restore to freedom a race of men. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#almighty #enlightened #freedom #instrument #men

The first place to start is on enforcement. We who got the ADA passed did the hard part, the heavy lifting. ↗

— Major Owens

#did #enforcement #first #got #hard

I turned down a lot of easier opportunities in order to go for the things that I really and ultimately wanted to do. And what's really nice is that it's starting to work. I've been an actor for coming up on 14 years now and the level of activity that's taking place now is a culmination of a slow cooker approach to as opposed to a microwave. ↗

— David Oyelowo

#actor #approach #been #coming #culmination

When I paint, I seriously consider the public presence of a person - the surface facade. I am less concerned with how people look when they wake up or how they act at home. A person's public presence reflects his own efforts at image development. ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

#am #concerned #consider #development #efforts

No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy. ↗

— Horatio Nelson

#captain #enemy #his #places #ship

My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied. ↗

— Horatio Nelson

#death #disgrace #dreadful #envied #glorious

Never break the neutrality of a port or place, but never consider as neutral any place from whence an attack is allowed to be made. ↗

— Horatio Nelson

#any #attack #break #consider #made

But it is neither cannon nor bayonet that will do the worst damage to this city. No, this place will remember the war against our government just as long as there are inhabitants here. ↗

— Knute Nelson

#bayonet #cannon #city #damage #government

The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever. ↗

— Ted Nelson

#because #constraints #cut #going #ideas

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results. ↗

— Willie Nelson

#having #negative #negative thoughts #once #ones