#bet

Now at 47, 48 I am expected to do ten times better work that I did when I was 24. ↗

— Salman Khan

#better #did #expected #i #i am

Do you think when two representatives holding diametrically opposing views get together and shake hands, the contradictions between our systems will simply melt away? What kind of a daydream is that? ↗

— Nikita Khrushchev

#between #contradictions #daydream #diametrically #get

I'd had episodes before, but I swept them under the carpet. This time, I couldn't do that because everyone knew. I got on with the hard work of getting better and haven't had a blip in almost 10 years. ↗

— Margot Kidder

#because #before #better #carpet #episodes

I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#betraying #between #causes #choose #country

For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#better #changed #characters #even #hold

I'm not a gambling-man. I have never bet a dollar in all my life. ↗

— John Forsythe

#dollar #i #life #my life #never

It is statistically proven that the strongest institution that guarantees procreation and continuity of the generations is marriage between one man and one woman. We don't want genocide. We don't want to destroy the sacred institution of marriage. ↗

— Alveda King

#continuity #destroy #generations #genocide #guarantees

I think that's what's great about being an actress is you get to learn so many different things like that, like learning a little bit of Tibetan here, learning a Southern accent there. ↗

— Jaime King

#accent #actress #being #bit #different

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#could #dead #his #job #life

Evil is knowing better, but willingly doing worse. ↗

— Philip Zimbardo

#doing #evil #knowing #willingly #worse