#ego

And the two planes that were taking the band and crew that we had taken out to San Diego were flying out after the show. And so I was never supposed to be on that plane. ↗

— Reba McEntire

#band #crew #diego #flying #had

Relationships are negotiated and if you deal with ultimatums and authority all the time, then you're not going to get anywhere. ↗

— Phil McGraw

#authority #deal #get #going #negotiated

To be able to love and live in freedom means to be able to make godly decisions. To make godly decisions we have to surrender our egos and all the falsity and shame that goes with it. ↗

— James McGreevey

#decisions #egos #falsity #freedom #freedom means

Among the many problems with taking the Bible literally is it reduces the most mysterious and complex of realities to simple - even simplistic - terms. Yes, scripture speaks of fire and damnation and eternal bliss, but the Bible is the product of human hands and hearts, and much of the imagery is allegorical, not meteorological. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#among #bible #bliss #complex #damnation

It is a kind of ego booster, the way Egypt's winning the 1973 war, in the first stages, was an uplift. But I did not find when I spoke to people that the war in Iraq was seen as the major issue in American-Arab relations. ↗

— Walter Russell Mead

#did #ego #egypt #find #first

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#claus #democracy #dream #heaven #only

Either we're going to solve this by realistic negotiation or there will be blood on the border. ↗

— Tom Metzger

#border #either #going #negotiation #realistic

Israelis and Palestinians are suspicious of each other and of promises from outside. But the need for a negotiated solution between the parties should not stymie international clarity and consensus about the endgame in terms of borders and other issues. ↗

— David Miliband

#between #borders #clarity #consensus #each

Egotism is not a good quality. It's not something to be admired or even tolerated. It wouldn't be tolerated in a field commander and it shouldn't be tolerated in a movie director. ↗

— John Milius

#commander #director #egotism #even #field

Because someone stole Gregory Peck's star on Hollywood Blvd., I have hired a Brink's guard to protect my star! ↗

— Rip Taylor

#brink #gregory #guard #hired #hollywood