#ang

We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely... change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now. ↗

— George A. Sheehan

#am #change #due #i #i am

Your silence creates a vacuum for others to fill The key is to stay present and keep listening. The silence of holding steady is different from the silence of holding back. ↗

— Ronald Heifetz

#silence #change

We (actors) don't really change the world. We reflect it... but Washington really changes the world. ↗

— Martin Sheen

#change the world #changes #really #reflect #washington

Another woman approached me while I was having lunch at the Russian Tea Room in New York and told me that the reason she had become a lawyer was because she had read 'Rage of Angels'. To me, that kind of feedback has more meaning than any sales figures. ↗

— Sidney Sheldon

#another #another woman #any #approached #because

I'm not an actress and I suck at lying. I am also far from being a seductress. It's hard to practice the art of seduction when you're always pushing your kid sister around in her wheelchair. Not to mention that daily jeans and baggy sweatshirt do not a seductress make. ↗

— Susan Ee

#susan-ee #art

I jump out of perfectly good airplanes, and it's a great thrill and it allows me to share in the dangers that our great men and women in uniform share in on a regular basis. ↗

— Hugh Shelton

#basis #dangers #good #great #great men

It is changing the face of terrorism. It is basically bringing it to the United States, to our great citizens. We know the terrorists are barbaric and murderers that attack innocent civilians, as they did in this case. ↗

— Hugh Shelton

#barbaric #basically #bringing #case #changing

A brick could be used to revive the spiritual movement in America. But are we as a people willing to accept the unacceptable into our lives? Sadly, I’m afraid I’m crying at the answer, which I know to be unknowable. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#brick-and-blanket-iq-test #brick-and-blanket-responses #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #funny

He had a new girl, and I told him she looked like Marilyn Monroe. He smiled because he thought I meant she was beautiful, and I smiled because I meant she looked like a corpse.
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— Jarod Kintz

#beautiful #beauty #bizarre #corpse #dating

In such diffused changes of culture two factors are necessary: contact and understanding. ↗

— Hu Shih

#contact #culture #diffused #factors #necessary