#eve

African-Americans have been brainwashed into not being open-minded, not even considering a conservative point of view. I have received some of that same vitriol simply because I am running for the Republican nomination as a conservative. So it's just brainwashing and people not being open-minded, pure and simple. ↗

— Herman Cain

#because #been #being #brainwashed #brainwashing

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye. ↗

— Helen Keller

#bend #eye #head #high #hold

I wouldn't ever set out to hurt anyone deliberately unless it was, you know, important - like a league game or something. ↗

— Dick Butkus

#deliberately #ever #game #hurt #i

However long the song is was how long it took us to write it. ↗

— Geezer Butler

#however #long #song #took #us

I never try and sound like Sabbath. ↗

— Geezer Butler

#like #never #sabbath #sound #try

Jack Bruce, as soon as I saw him, it changed me. I didn't even know what bass players did until I saw Cream. ↗

— Geezer Butler

#bass players #bruce #changed #cream #did

No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#doing #even #i #i write #long

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#compassion #demand #food #hunger #natural

Every one of our passions and affections hath its natural stint and bound, which may easily be exceeded; whereas our enjoyments can possibly be but in a determinate measure and degree. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#bound #degree #easily #enjoyments #every

And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses. It's so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they'd rather clean the toilet than do the writing. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#course #day #days #easy #even