#ay

I would rather be known as 'Jim Kolbe, the trade expert in Congress who happens to be gay,' rather than 'Jim Kolbe, gay congressman from Arizona.' ↗

— Jim Kolbe

#congress #congressman #expert #gay #happens

Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something. ↗

— Wilson Mizner

#getting #nothing #something #sure #sure way

There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory. ↗

— Philip Levine

#always #am #because #grew #i

So, then you find yourself in a situation where you have to do things because they're on offer to you, because you don't have much self-respect left. You just can't say no, even to something that you've never done before. You just can't help yourself. ↗

— Brian Molko

#before #done #even #find #help

I don't say anything unintentionally. ↗

— Dominic Monaghan

#i #say

We grew to know the meaning of love. That is what allowed me and my family to stay close together. ↗

— Martin Lawrence

#close #family #grew #know #love

Be-bop wasn't developed in any deliberate way. ↗

— Thelonious Monk

#be-bop #deliberate #developed #way

A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again. ↗

— Laurel Lee

#beyond #could #forgive #form #grooves

Always be prepared to start. ↗

— Joe Montana

#be prepared #prepared #start

Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence. ↗

— Titus Livius

#difficulties #exercise #intelligence #many #may