#ives

I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper that I am a fraud, and that the jig is up. Surely someone will rise up from the audience and say out loud that not only am I not funny and helpful, but I'm annoying, and a phony. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#annoying #audience #din #fraud #fright

The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#black #bonus #bran #christmas #drives

All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters. ↗

— Gordon Lightfoot

#faces #names #remains #sons #wives

If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win. ↗

— Shelley Long

#cheat #home #only #quit #run

What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a pretty universal defense. ↗

— Catharine MacKinnon

#effect #gives #instead #male #multicultural

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#always #deceived #deceives #find #themselves

One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise the trauma of change in our personal lives. ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#choice #choices #deliberate #enough #equals

A person who deserves my loyalty receives it. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#loyalty #person #receives #who

When I'm writing a song, it gives me more actual pleasure to hear someone else sing it than do it meself. ↗

— Shane MacGowan

#else #gives #hear #i #me

It's about time we all faced up to the truth. If we accept the radical homosexual agenda, be it in the military or in marriage or in other areas of our lives, we are utterly destroying the concept of family. ↗

— Alan Keyes

#accept #agenda #areas #concept #destroying