#ld

Dictators are ludicrous characters, and, you know, in my career and in my life, I've always enjoyed sort of inhabiting these ludicrous, larger-than-life characters that somehow exist in the real world. ↗

— Sacha Baron Cohen

#career #characters #dictators #enjoyed #exist

A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#could #either #events #felt #hesitates

God will lead you into a deliverance where the means that delivers you will be those who would destroy you. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#delivers #destroy #god #into #lead

Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#around #changed #make #men #reasonable

Prayer in private results in boldness in public. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#prayer #private #public #results

It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood, A beautiful day for a neighbor. Would you be mine? Could you be mine?... It's a neighborly day in this beauty wood, A neighborly day for a beauty. Would you be mine? Could you be mine?... I've always wanted to have a neighbor just like you. I've always wanted to live in a neighborhood with you. So, let's make the most of this beautiful day. Since we're together we might as well say: Would you be mine? Could you be mine? Won't you be my neighbor? Won't you please, Won't you please? Please won't you be my neighbor? ↗

— Fred Rogers

#inspirational #love #mister-rogers-neighborhood #television #beauty

It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#ever #modern #old-fashioned #only

My main expertise is in the past, but if I have to extrapolate into the future, I would say: no good news any time soon and an obvious exit strategy is not apparent to me. ↗

— Juan Cole

#apparent #exit #exit strategy #expertise #extrapolate

I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South. ↗

— Nat King Cole

#entertainers #frighten #guinea #guinea pig #hurt

I find that the older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. ↗

— Paula Cole

#darkness #find #get #happiness #huge