#kin

People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that they'd much rather do other kinds of things. But most people are afraid of rejection. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#afraid #could #decide #effort #kinds

My initial plan was to spend a year in France, go to some kind of school and learn a bit of French. I went a year in an American college in the outskirts of Strasbourg, but got a glimpse of a real art school, L'Ecole des Arts Decoratifs, and enrolled the following year. ↗

— John Howe

#art #art school #arts #bit #college

Being Asian where you're supposed to be more quiet and softer and I was always getting reprimanded for laughing to loud or speaking to loudly. ↗

— Kelly Hu

#asian #being #getting #i #laughing

I did every diet: Atkins. Cabbage-soup diet. Dean Ornish. But I couldn't live the rest of my life like a rabbit. ↗

— Mike Huckabee

#dean #did #diet #every #i

When people said Africa would change me, I didn't understand what they meant. To see the poverty in the townships, for instance, is overwhelming. I found it heart-wrenching to see young children walking barefoot and hungry in the dirt. I'm the kind of person who wants to change the world right here and now, so I got frustrated. ↗

— Jennifer Hudson

#barefoot #change #change the world #children #dirt

It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead. ↗

— Larry Ellison

#lead #mankind #microsoft #only #slight

The middle class is teetering on the brink of collapse just as surely as AIG was in the fall of 2009 - only this time, it's not just one giant insurance company (and its banking counterparties) facing disaster, it's tens of millions of hardworking Americans who played by the rules. ↗

— Arianna Huffington

#brink #class #collapse #company #disaster

Our true nationality is mankind. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#nationality #our #true

I have six sisters and two beautiful daughters - that's eight women who mean the world to me. I support the Entertainment Industry Foundation and Lee National Denim Day because they fund programs that are making huge strides in breast cancer research and support. ↗

— Felicity Huffman

#because #breast cancer #cancer #daughters #day

I'm also working with Mrs. Bush on some education projects in Afghanistan, so I get to see her a great deal. ↗

— Karen Hughes

#also #bush #deal #education #get