#ants

The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

#advice #always #autonomy #best #contrary

My greatest reward is knowing for certain, as I do with many other acts and artistes, that without Jonathan King being alive and involved, Genesis would not exist, and the guys would have had careers as intended - as accountants and lawyers! ↗

— Jonathan King

#acts #alive #being #careers #certain

The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#because #cannot #catharsis #defeat #emotional

I had to learn to forgive. I couldn't sleep at night. I got ulcers. I had to let go, to let God deal with it. No one wants to be mad in their own house. I didn't want to be angry my whole life. It takes so much energy out of you to be mean. ↗

— Rodney King

#deal #energy #forgive #go #god

They said this is Vanity Fair, and I said, Oh, I already take the magazine. They said Annie Leibovitz wants to take your picture and I thought, How nice! ↗

— Shirley Knight

#annie #fair #how #i #magazine

I pride myself on breaking any box that anyone wants to put me in. ↗

— Ryan Kwanten

#anyone #box #breaking #i #me

One wants to be together with one's family. That's what families are about. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#families #family #together #wants

So if anybody wants to get me something, get me 60 crabs - one for each year. I don't want no diamonds, I don't want no shoes, I don't want no party. I want some crabs. ↗

— Patti LaBelle

#crabs #diamonds #each #get #i

The secret of a successful newspaper is to take one story each day and bang the hell out of it. Give the public what it wants to have and part of what it ought to have whether it wants it or not. ↗

— Herbert Bayard Swope

#day #each #give #hell #newspaper

The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others. ↗

— Leo Rosten

#even #him #loved #makes #more