#iona

Bunkum and tummyrot! You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. Would Columbus have discovered America if he'd said 'What if I sink on the way over? What if I meet pirates? What if I never come back?' He wouldn't even have started. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#inspirational

I have reaffirmed my political will to work towards national unity. ↗

— Abdelaziz Bouteflika

#national #national unity #political #towards #unity

At some point we have to be able to say, “I have no idea what is going on.” Hmmmmmmmm. I wonder if that’s the whole trip, so that we can actually know what’s going on. Hmmmmmmmm. ↗

— Art Hochberg

#inspirational #art

What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

#aims #belief #desires #goals #inspirational

Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#inspirational #inspirational

If you think of even Tolstoy or a book like 'Anna Karenina,' you go from character to character, and each section is from the third person perspective of a different character, so you get to see the whole world a little more kaleidoscopically that way. That's traditional narrative manner, and I haven't done a book like that before, but I enjoyed it. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#before #book #character #different #done

Since 1980, we've used reconciliation 22 times, and out of those times, Republicans used it 16 times. So, earth to my Republican friends, you can have your option but you cannot change these facts. They're in the Congressional Record. ↗

— Barbara Boxer

#change #congressional #earth #facts #friends

I started acting professionally at age 19. ↗

— Bruce Boxleitner

#age #i #professionally #started

I started in high school and then I went onto professional training after that. ↗

— Bruce Boxleitner

#high #high school #i #onto #professional

He was a top man and a good professional. He was one of those who you know will never play a trick and you can ask him to do anything for you and he will. An unassuming man and a great loss to us all. ↗

— Geoffrey Boycott

#ask #good #great #him #know