#his

I have never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back. ↗

My mom, God rest her soul - she liked nicknames. In the womb she named me Skip. There was another black guy in Piedmont, W.Va., and his name was Skip. They called him Big Skip, and I was Little Skip. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#big #black #called #god #guy

He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul. ↗

— David Lloyd George

#fence #his #iron #long #sat

The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips. ↗

— J. Paul Getty

#anything #better #comes #doing #economically

If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave. ↗

— Samuel Goldwyn

#grave #his #over #roosevelt #today

A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one. ↗

— Dimitri Shostakovich

#because #composition #creative #creative artist #his

The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image. ↗

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

#filters #his #own #past #prism

History teaches that the level of unemployment is not as important as whether the rate's going down. ↗