#it

I feel like saying we need to all calm down a little. Let's take the time to breathe. I have no intention of allowing myself be distracted. ↗

— Pauline Marois

#breathe #calm #calm down #distracted #down

From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#could #i #leaf #left #me

We owe America something because they turned us into a touring band. But at least we feel confident about appearing in Britain again now. Hyde park was the first time over here for ages. ↗

— Steve Marriott

#again #ages #america #appearing #band

He is not valiant that dares die, but he that boldly bears calamity. ↗

— Philip Massinger

#boldly #calamity #dares #die #valiant

When we first went there we completely lacked confidence. Our manager told us our act was too long, and told us to drop certain numbers and concentrate on the exciting stuff. And he was right. ↗

— Steve Marriott

#certain #completely #concentrate #confidence #drop

But in reading all of the passages in which Jesus uses the word "hell," what is so striking is that people believing the right or wrong things isn't his point. He's often not talking about "beliefs" as we think of them--he's talking about anger and lust and indifference. He's talking about the state of his listeners' hearts, about how they conduct themselves, how they interact with their neighbors, about the kind of effect they have on the world. ↗

— Rob Bell

#faith #inspirtational #religion #theology #anger

You can't knock on opportunity's door and not be ready. ↗

— Bruno Mars

#knock #opportunity #ready #you

I guess if I'm a product, either you're chocolate, you're vanilla or you're butterscotch. You can't be all three. ↗

— Bruno Mars

#either #guess #i #product #three

When you're dealing with music without words, titles are more a means of identification than anything else. What's the point of getting lofty? ↗

— Branford Marsalis

#dealing #else #getting #identification #lofty

(from John Hay's diary) “The President never appeared to better advantage in the world,” Hay proudly noted in his diary. “Though He knows how immense is the danger to himself from the unreasoning anger of that committee, he never cringed to them for an instant. He stood where he thought he was right and crushed them with his candid logic. ↗

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

#crush-them-with-logic #anger