#chi

My childhood was appalling. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

#childhood

Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions. ↗

— James Callaghan

#experience #firm #however #incapable #intellect

Children are our future we must take care of them with maximum effort. ↗

— Naomi Campbell

#children #effort #future #maximum #must

For me, being a director is about watching, not about telling people what to do. Or maybe it's like being a mirror; if they didn't have me to look at, they wouldn't be able to put the make-up on. ↗

— Jane Campion

#about #being #director #like #look

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children. ↗

— Albert Camus

#breathe #children #clean #clean air #disenfranchised

A lot of people give in to those pressures and let others influence the process on their second albums because they want to achieve the success they had with their first again, but they don't know how to do it. ↗

— Vanessa Carlton

#again #albums #because #first #give

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#achieve #achievement #course #desires #develop

There are cities that get by on their good looks, offer climate and scenery, views of mountains or oceans, rockbound or with palm trees; and there are cities like Detroit that have to work for a living, whose reason for being might be geographical but whose growth is based on industry, jobs. Detroit has its natural attractions: lakes all over the place, an abundance of trees and four distinct seasons for those who like variety in their weather, everything but hurricanes and earth-quakes. But it’s never been the kind of city people visit and fall in love with because of its charm or think, gee, wouldn’t this be a nice place to live. ↗

— Elmore Leonard

#cities #detroit #industry #jobs #michigan

It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates of peoples, where their children's and grandchildren's fates, are decided. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#decided #fates #grandchildren #men #past

I think that came out of watching all those serious movies for all that time. If you watch a movie like Zero Hour, Sterling Hayden is pretty funny, and so are the guys in the cockpit. ↗

— David Zucker

#cockpit #funny #guys #hayden #hour