#airs

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs. ↗

— Andrew Carnegie

#acquired #affairs #assuring #born #control

In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect - if you're a moderate on abortion, if you're a moderate on gun control, or if you're a moderate in your religious faith - it doesn't evolve into a crusade where you're either right or wrong, good or bad, with us or against us. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#affairs #against #any #attract #bad

Our task was doing maintenance and repairs to keep the station in a good state for the return of the shuttle flights and resumption of major ISS construction. ↗

— Leroy Chiao

#doing #flights #good #keep #maintenance

I have 137 pairs of shoes and 200 pairs of jeans. ↗

— Frances Bean Cobain

#jeans #pairs #shoes

We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#call #department #down #fire #house

I reached my full height at age 11, and I was clumsy as all get-out - all elbows and knees, couldn't get up a flight of stairs without falling down. I wanted to be a cute, petite blonde, but I'm a big ol' strapping thing, so I just accept it. ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#age #big #blonde #clumsy #cute

Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#behind #current #current state #reputation #runs

You take that walk from the dressing room to the ring and that's when the real man comes out. Then you climb up those four stairs and into the ring. Then finally, you can't wait for the bell to ring. ↗

— Gerry Cooney

#climb #comes #dressing #dressing room #finally

The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#any #business #consulting #control #embrace

I don't think anybody ever thought about the CIA meddling in internal affairs. The shock of the President's death called for an immediate investigation. It actually lay in the jurisdiction of Texas. ↗

— John Sherman Cooper

#actually #affairs #anybody #called #cia