#hall

Creating a decent pop song is a challenge - and occasionally, once in every decade - it's kind of fun to do that. ↗

— David Sylvian

#creating #decade #decent #every #fun

When you pray and hope for a change. Don't expect a change to come. Expect the opportunity for a change to come. ↗

— Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#hope #hopelessness #inspirational #jonathan-anthony-burkett #life

My dear boy, the people who only love once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect—simply a confession of failures. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#imagination #intellect #loyalty #shallow #faith

The prisoners for better security against conversation shall have a canvas bag put over the head of each and tied around the neck, with a holes for proper breathing and eating, but not seeing. ↗

— Edwin M. Stanton

#around #bag #better #breathing #canvas

Now all we need is to continue to speak the truth fearlessly, and we shall add to our number those who will turn the scale to the side of equal and full justice in all things. ↗

— Lucy Stone

#all things #continue #equal #fearlessly #full

I will embrace the first opportunity to get to California and it is altogether probable that when once there I shall never again leave it. ↗

— George Stoneman

#altogether #california #embrace #first #get

If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new. ↗

— William Styron

#find #least #new #pleasant #shall

Competition got me off the farm and trained me to seek out challenges and to endure setbacks; and in combination with my faith, it sustains me now in my fight with Alzheimer's disease. ↗

— Pat Summitt

#challenges #combination #competition #disease #endure

If I'm going to do television, I wanted that 'North and South' experience. I wanted something that's going to challenge me on a constant basis. ↗

— Patrick Swayze

#challenge #constant #experience #going #i

Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law. ↗

— William Howard Taft

#administration #become #becomes #i #law