#ace

My most ardent desire is that my country will recapture its historic opportunity for a peaceful evolution and that Poland will prove to the world that even the most complex situations can be solved by a dialogue and not by force. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#complex #country #desire #dialogue #even

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged. ↗

— Alice Walker

#down #end #engaged #faces #fears

When life tries to define you with its hardship, you gotta push back, look it straight in the eye and say, ‘No matter what life throws at me, I’m going to keep telling myself that I will overcome.’ And every time you own that truth, you write your own life script. ↗

— Nikki Rosen

#faith #god #grace #hope #life

I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos and paid in very low wages but on the surface it was very bright and shiny and free and the rest of the world would look on it longingly. ↗

— Alice Walker

#bright #country #fifties #free #ghettos

The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout. ↗

— Alice Walker

#die #make #men #pacifist #peaceful

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk? ↗

— Alice Walker

#bouquets #dance #ever #everything #except

The place I feel most at home is when I have health insurance. I really don't care how I get it, whether it's on film, or television or waiting tables, you know? ↗

— Benjamin Walker

#feel #film #get #health #health insurance

Well, it was just, the bars was all just like the bamboo roofs and everything. You know. As I say, to me, it's completely spoiled all, all these places now. Make them all just tourist traps. ↗

— David Walker

#bars #completely #everything #i #just

I don't think I have the face - may have the voice but not the demeanor for an anchor. And I defied it. ↗

— Mike Wallace

#defied #demeanor #face #i #may

There was no way to focus on the movement of the cable. If I looked down at the cable there was water moving everywhere. And if I looked up there was heavy mist blowing in front of my face. So it was a very unique, a weird sensation. ↗

— Nik Wallenda

#cable #down #everywhere #face #focus