#gain

I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there's a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again. ↗

— Alice Walker

#again #almost #because #change #dire

My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap. ↗

— Alice Walker

#against #coconut #collapsing #defending #father

Even the greatest actors have had dry spells where they've wondered if they were going to work again. ↗

— Benjamin Walker

#dry #even #going #greatest #had

The people who were against the Vietnam War thought I was attacking the Army. The guys in the Army thought I was representing their experiences. I was on both sides, and I survived. ↗

— Mort Walker

#army #attacking #both #both sides #experiences

It may be shocking to some people in this country to realize that, without meaning to do so, they hold views in common with Hitler when they preach discrimination against other religious, racial or economic groups. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#common #country #discrimination #economic #groups

The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#american #carefully #common #crack #cultivate

Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#because #competition #democracy #distrust #energetic

To destroy a standing crop goes against the soundest instincts of human nature. ↗

— Henry Cantwell Wallace

#crop #destroy #goes #human #human nature

I still enjoy my life, and I feel like I've achieved enough things that if I never did anything again, I'd feel confident that I'd still have made my mark in some way. But maybe the self-loathing bit is the element that makes you strive for more. Makes you strive to be better. ↗

— David Walliams

#again #anything #better #bit #confident

I don't think we should discriminate against an organization or congregation because they're religious, if they're doing good work. But government can't subsidize proselytizing or worship or religious activity. It can't. ↗

— Jim Wallis

#against #because #congregation #discriminate #doing