#lesson

I hope the example of Saddam Hussein will give a lesson to leaders of other countries where human rights are not respected. ↗

— Shirin Ebadi

#example #give #hope #human #human rights

We discussed politics, but we also talked about the importance of hard work, personal responsibility, living within your means, keeping your word. Those lessons stay with you throughout your life. ↗

— Bob Ehrlich

#also #discussed #hard #hard work #importance

A rose is not its thorns, a peach is not its fuzz and a human being is not his or her crankiness. ↗

— Lisa Kogan

#life-lessons #people #life

I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence. ↗

— Julius Erving

#basketball #before #being #ever #good

There's no question that we need tougher drunk-driving laws for repeat offenders. We need to take a lesson from European countries where driving isn't a right but a privilege. ↗

— Jesse Ventura

#driving #european #european countries #laws #lesson

The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election. ↗

— Gerald R. Ford

#allow #america #arrogant #dictate #election

I grew up on musicals, and I know they are quite the thing now, but I'm actually a little indignant, because I started taking singing lessons years ago - I put the time in! ↗

— Marisa Tomei

#ago #because #grew #i #indignant

I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both. ↗

— Vera Wang

#both #doing #either #ended #expected

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#lessons #many #prison #things #will

All those lessons that I've learned on the court, I have applied them to my life outside of the court in business, my company, called V Starr interiors, an interior design company, and EleVen, which I wear on court. ↗

— Venus Williams

#business #called #company #court #design