#his

The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#happened #historian #like #novelist #tell

We are constantly protecting the male ego, and it's a disservice to men. If a man has any sensitivity or intelligence, he wants to get the straight scoop from his girlfriend. ↗

— Betty Dodson

#any #constantly #disservice #ego #get

The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech. ↗

— Dogen

#buddha #color #great #his #mountains

Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history. ↗

— August Wilson

#away #forget #history #insist #itself

My younger son, Cordell, aka Lil Snoop, loves me like a fan loves Snoop Dogg. He's inspired by making me happy. My older son, Corde, aka Spank, does everything I say, with effort and determination - but he does it for himself. He gets his thrill out of seeing his own results on the football field. ↗

— Snoop Dogg

#does #effort #everything #fan #field

I guess I feel very strongly that I disagree with the notion of personalizing history and movements and big events. ↗

— Bernadine Dohrn

#disagree #events #feel #guess #history

I just feel that I don't agree with sensationalized versions of history or me. Any version that's sensationalized. ↗

— Bernadine Dohrn

#any #feel #history #i #just

My commitment is to strive to lean on the Lord with my whole heart, reading His word daily and earnestly seeking His will in my life. ↗

— Elizabeth Dole

#daily #earnestly #heart #his #lean

And, finally, Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he was at his best when he could read from a carefully prepared manuscript. Though maybe a teleprompter could have helped that! ↗

— David Herbert Donald

#carefully #could #finally #good #helped

The big biography of Lincoln necessarily had to do so much with his political career, his ambitions, his accomplishments in public, with less time to spend on his private life, his inner life, and I thought this might be a way of getting at that. ↗

— David Herbert Donald

#big #biography #career #getting #had