#erm

I think most people, when they think about the Black Panther Party, they think in very abstract, caricatured terms. They think about black fists in the air, but they don't think about the actual people, and the families, and the relationships. ↗

— Kerry Washington

#abstract #actual #air #black #families

There was no relationship between a wedding dress and fashion. There was no good taste, either. I realized that I could make an impression in terms of changing and readdressing the whole industry of bridal. ↗

— Vera Wang

#bridal #changing #could #dress #either

I wanted to make comics that get at feelings that connect to the deepest moments of our lives, reading Tolstoy, Flaubert, Flannery O'Connor, Herman Melville, William Faulkner, Vladimir Nabokov and Carver to help gain the confidence to figure it out. I knew, however, the most doomed approach would be to simply create stories that felt 'literary.' ↗

— Chris Ware

#carver #comics #confidence #connect #connor

Tragically, the effort to make America and the world safer and to defend freedom around the world is not without an enormous cost to this Nation in terms primarily of lost lives and those who bear the scars and the wounds of war, and their families who must bear these losses. ↗

— John Warner

#around #bear #cost #defend #effort

Our officers and men behaved like men who are determined to be free. ↗

— Anthony Wayne

#determined #free #like #men #officers

The abuse of detainees in U.S. custody has severely undermined our Nation's position in the world. ↗

— Diane Watson

#custody #detainees #nation #our #position

Formula one is very one-dimensional in terms of what we do in the cockpit. ↗

— Mark Webber

#formula #formula one #one-dimensional #terms #very

Someday, I'd like to sit down with a small group of people, in a relaxed environment, and make a film that feels more independent. That way we can be a little more free in terms of storytelling and subject. ↗

— Chris Wedge

#environment #feels #film #free #group

I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances. ↗

— Simone Weil

#barbarism #becomes #characteristic #circumstances #considered

My mother, father, stepmother and surrogate mother have all died of cancer; my best friend has got terminal cancer and at least five of my other friends have had cancer but survived it. ↗

— Arabella Weir

#best friend #cancer #died #father #five