#here

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#flower #grow #i #life #mind

I had something called the back of the chair test. Where I sit, we don't sit like you and I do. I can see a sliver right behind them and they come out and they sit like this like god students and they don't touch the back of the chair. ↗

— James Lipton

#behind #called #chair #come #god

Look around, and you see everywhere the exertions and acts of individuals restricted, regulated, or promoted, on the principle of the common welfare. ↗

— Friedrich List

#around #common #everywhere #exertions #individuals

I'm happy and at peace with where I am at life. ↗

— Rebecca Lobo

#happy #i #i am #life #peace

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen. ↗

— Martin Luther

#amen #anything #cannot #conscience #go

We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place. ↗

— Joseph de Maistre

#evil #good #modern #nothing #philosophy

If 10 years ago I was told I'd be where I am now, I would've been pretty happy. ↗

— Kate Mara

#am #been #happy #i #i am

A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#conditions #creates #desires #energy #environment

I like to know where I'm going to be at seven o'clock. ↗

— Andrea Martin

#going #i #know #like #seven

You know I never used to be a bad flyer, but I did start to have a fear of flying after I shot a movie where I was terrorized on a plane. I made Wes Craven's 'Red Eye'. I don't think they're linked but it does make me pause and wonder if they are, so perhaps I will explore that in therapy some day. ↗

— Rachel McAdams

#bad #craven #day #did #does