#aid

I lay in the bed at the hospital and said, 'let's see what I have left.' And I could see, I could speak, I could think, I could read. I simply tabulated my blessings, and that gave me a start. ↗

— Dale Evans

#blessings #could #gave #hospital #i

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#brave #coward #either #him #man

One day it was about getting married that mother talked with me, and I said I was so glad that when you didn't like being married, or got tired of your husband, you could get Unmarried. ↗

— Eleanor Porter

#being #could #day #get #getting

I had no style when I was 17! I look at teenagers now and say, 'I wish I'd looked like them when I was that age.' I had no style whatsoever, but style also wasn't as prominent as it is today. I was just very laid back, usually wearing jeans and tank tops and flip flops. ↗

— Candace Cameron Bure

#also #back #flip #flops #had

There's no excuse, it's just an opportunity that presented in a limited way and that happened and as soon as the press rang me I didn't deny it I just said 'that's it' and I had to go home and explain it. ↗

— John Prescott

#excuse #explain #go #go home #had

When I went in, my editor said, 'I hope you don't think you're a writer.' And I said, 'I hope you don't think I'm a journalist.' And, uh, turned out we were both right. ↗

— Julia Cameron

#editor #hope #i #journalist #out

It's better to not be afraid of things and not avoid things. ↗

— Noomi Rapace

#avoid #better #things

Before 1972, no actors got residuals. They just got paid. No residuals. ↗

— John Ratzenberger

#got #just #paid #residuals

What the study I chaired actually said was we needed tougher regulation of cash and capital in banks, as credit was too easy. Events proved that right. ↗

— John Redwood

#banks #capital #cash #credit #easy

I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure. ↗

— Trent Reznor

#because #failure #had #i #never