#la

Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, 'Would you take my son with you?' He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die. ↗

— Bono

#baby #blow #day #die #ethiopia

Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labour to overcome the cloud that loads 'em. ↗

— Thomas Otway

#cloud #labour #like #loads #overcome

Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth. ↗

— Bono

#cursed #digging #drilling #get #happy

What the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#displays #important #joke #perception #switch

Particularly conservative Christians, I was very angry that they were not involved more in the AIDS emergency. ↗

— Bono

#angry #christians #conservative #emergency #i

I think there are a lot more relationship scenes in my movies that people tend to overlook. A lot of scenes really feel real and are about the characters. ↗

— Jan de Bont

#characters #feel #i #i think #lot

There's a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things are in alignment. For transgender people, they're mismatched. That's all it is. It's not complicated, it's not a neurosis. It's a mix-up. It's a birth defect, like a cleft palate. ↗

— Chastity Bono

#birth #body #brain #complicated #defect

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#gives #his #lay #man #more

People have said to me, You can't write songs. You can't play an instrument. But I've got 10 gold records. ↗

— Sonny Bono

#got #i #instrument #me #people

Our platform calls for a balanced deficit reduction plan where the wealthy pay their fair share. And when your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn't class warfare - it's patriotism. ↗

— Cory Booker

#asked #balanced #being #calls #class