#inking

The quality of his being one with the people, of having no artificial or natural barriers between him and them, made it possible for him to be a leader without ever being or thinking of being a dictator. ↗

— Frances Perkins

#barriers #being #between #dictator #ever

Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my age and build could be suffering from bulimia nervosa, but that's what the consultant said I had. ↗

— John Prescott

#build #bulimia #consultant #could #had

I keep wondering how to explain the experience of child abuse from the inside. I'm going to try to explain what my world was like when I was sexually abused. The thing you have to remember is that this was the thinking of a child. ↗

— Robin Quivers

#child #child abuse #experience #explain #going

The politicians in this world... have at their command weapons of mass destruction far more complex than their own thinking processes. ↗

— Charley Reese

#complex #destruction #far #mass #more

Iran's economy is now shrinking by 1 percent a year. Its oil production is down 40 percent. ↗

— Susan Rice

#economy #iran #now #oil #oil production

We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be "revolutionary" but not transformative. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#every #feeling #formless #inadequate #language

A thinking woman sleeps with monsters. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#sleeps #thinking #woman

The thrill of hearing your own voice recorded is still there, I still love it, going into the studio and thinking how can I sing this song and between the producers and the musicians you find a way of doing it. ↗

— Cliff Richard

#doing #find #going #hearing #how

He was seriously thinking of becoming a monk. He thought he had to be celibate to maintain the purity of his instrument, but my instrument needed tuning, and we had to split. ↗

— Mimi Rogers

#celibate #had #his #instrument #maintain

The beautiful heroine might be thinking, How long must I bury my face on this wretched man's shoulder? Such is not the always the case, but quite often it is. ↗

— Ivor Novello

#beautiful #bury #case #face #heroine