#be

Me? I didn’t believe in hopeless. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#dimitri-s-point-of-view #hopeless #inspiring #richelle-mead #rose-hathaway

I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, had you said it was going to happen no one would have believed you. The system seemed powerful and unbreakable. Suddenly overnight it blew away like dust. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#away #before #believed #berlin #berlin wall

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#below #brute #brute force #force #hitting

Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#doing #moment #next #place #puts

I've been to location shoots in Mexico before, and everyone ends up getting sick. ↗

— Ann Rutherford

#before #ends #everyone #getting #i

You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed. ↗

— Samuel Rutherford

#carried #ease #feather #heaven #lying

And the insidious thing is that people will either see a movie because it did well last weekend or won't see it because it didn't do well. ↗

— Meg Ryan

#did #either #insidious #last #movie

Everything changes except human behavior and its consequences. ↗

— Stephanie M. Sellers

#horses #lumbee-indians #mustangs #non-fiction #north-carolina

A wealthy landowner cannot cultivate and improve his farm without spreading comfort and well-being around him. Rich and abundant crops, a numerous population and a prosperous countryside are the rewards for his efforts. ↗

— Antoine Lavoisier

#around #cannot #comfort #countryside #crops

It's very difficult to break into motion pictures, but it's oddly easier for directors today because of independent films and cable, who have inherited for the most part those films of substance that the studios are reluctant to finance. ↗

— Mark Rydell

#break #cable #difficult #directors #easier