#heir

Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#everything #except #first #form #grow

And they turned around and leased it to The Assembly Of God Churches - their headquarters are in Springfield, Missouri. They leased it to them for the first year. Then, after the first year, they will donate it to the church. ↗

— Mel Tillis

#around #assembly #church #churches #donate

And you know, we'd go to church. We were Baptists. And every now and then there'd be a tent would set up, and it was the Holiness folks. And we liked their music. ↗

— Mel Tillis

#church #every #folks #go #holiness

If you meet people who have been successful in Hollywood, or look a their photographs, you see a haunted look in their eyes, you sense a trapped feeling. ↗

— Meg Tilly

#eyes #feeling #haunted #hollywood #look

I'm not the only person who has something in their life they can't control. ↗

— TobyMac

#i #life #only #person #something

When I meet successful people I ask 100 questions as to what they attribute their success to. It is usually the same: persistence, hard work and hiring good people. ↗

— Kiana Tom

#attribute #good #good people #hard #hard work

As though there were a tie And obligation to posterity. We get them, bear them, breed, and nurse: What has posterity done for us. That we, lest they their rights should lose, Should trust our necks to gripe of noose? ↗

— John Trumbull

#breed #done #get #lest #lose

China gets their oil from Libya. Why isn't China involved? They're going out spending billions of dollars a day on trying to take over the world economically. And we're spending billions and billions and billions of dollars on policing the world. Why isn't China involved with Libya? That - we don't get oil from Libya, China does. ↗

— Donald Trump

#china #day #does #dollars #economically

The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved - as absurd and extreme as they may initially seem - must stay utterly rooted in their own reality, or the whole project collapses. ↗

— Stanley Tucci

#because #blessing #characters #collapses #constraints

Making people laugh is giving, and it's healing, too, when people can go up to the movies and forget about their problems. It's a good thing. That's why I want to work. ↗

— Chris Tucker

#about #forget #giving #go #good