#gh

Endangered forests are being slaughtered for toilet paper. ↗

— Daphne Zuniga

#endangered #forests #paper #slaughtered #toilet

Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success. ↗

— Og Mandino

#being overwhelmed #character #emergencies #failure #highway

I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own God and be true to him. I always say 'him' rather than 'her.' Maybe it's because of my generation, but I don't like the idea of a female God. I see God as a benevolent male. ↗

— Julia Child

#be true #because #benevolent #female #generation

I grew up in Birmingham, where they made useful things and made them well. ↗

— Lee Child

#grew #i #made #them #things

I was in television drama, which is a first cousin to the movies, and I trust myself to make the right decisions. ↗

— Lee Child

#decisions #drama #first #i #make

My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays. ↗

— Daphne Zuniga

#adam #bra #draft #earth #eve

Some even claim that I'm a terror, a dictator and they're right. ↗

— Lou Reed

#dictator #even #i #right #some

Even now when I am answering a question I am at the height of my own meditation. ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

#answering #even #even now #height #i

As soon as one nation claims the right to take preventive action, other countries will naturally do the same. If we go down that road, where are we going? ↗

— Jacques Chirac

#claims #countries #down #go #going

I don't think I'm a great singer myself. I'm all right. I've worked with different writers, different producers... I've just been blessed with the caliber of people I've been able to work with. ↗

— Melanie Chisholm

#been #blessed #caliber #different #great