#hi

TO preach a sermon or edit a newspaper were the two things in life which I always felt I could do with credit to myself and benefit to the world, if I only had the chance. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#benefit #chance #could #credit #edit

We don't often look into these unpleasant details of our great struggle. We all prefer to think that every man who wore the blue or gray was a Philip Sidney at heart. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#details #every #every man #gray #great

Most orgies that you go to, I have found, most of it is sad. All that wildness, all those laughs were like the shining silver and gold paper on packages, but there was nothing inside. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#go #gold #i #inside #laughs

I have known from the beginning one thing you need to know. That is, the music business is a business. ↗

— Steve Brown

#business #i #know #known #music

During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#always #been #decades #during #frank

Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch - unless he's Humphrey Bogart. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#bogart #comes #fame #guy #his

I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#back #believed #bobby #bobby kennedy #campaigning

When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#american #close #done #even #fear

I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#brought #grandmother #harlem #hills #hollywood

I go to temple a lot less than I would like because when I do, people still look at me as if they think it's a publicity stunt. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#go #i #i do #less #like