#again

I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#bad #being #compassion #discriminated #ever

I don't think anybody feels like they're a good parent. Or if people think they're good parents, they ought to think again. ↗

— Joan Didion

#anybody #feels #good #good parent #i

The same music is playing on the radio in San Francisco, New York, Washington DC and Annapolis. Everywhere you go there's the same artists and same songs by them, over and over again. At some stations they play the same songs 50 to 60 times a week. ↗

— John Hall

#artists #dc #everywhere #francisco #go

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. ↗

— Marjorie Holmes

#anchor #direction #drift #find #great

You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt. ↗

— Learned Hand

#breach #cannot #cold #disconcerting #doubt

It's weird, man. I've had a weird life, and I don't want to end up on the dole. I'm fed up with the plumbing. And I think it would be good to be a little pop star again. ↗

— Brian Harvey

#dole #end #fed #fed up #good

The actions of the terrorist organizations, Hezbollah, in Lebanon, and Hamas, in Gaza, against Israel are unconscionable. Instead of working towards peace, these terrorist organizations have chosen to perpetuate the violence. ↗

— Alcee Hastings

#against #chosen #gaza #hamas #instead

Without question, no hesitation, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was the best player I ever played against. ↗

— Bill Walton

#best #ever #hesitation #i #played

I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#again #cannot #exclusively #hour #i

I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#bad #fighting #i #many #poet