#lie

Beautiful songs could sometimes take a person out of themselves and carry them away to a place of magic. But when Jill sang, it was not about the song, really. She could sing the phone book. She could sing a shopping list. Whatever she sang, whatever the words or the tune, it was so beautiful, so achingly lovely, that no one could listen and be untouched. ↗

— Michael Grant

#gone-series #lies #michael-grant #singing #songs

I grew up with a deep belief that wherever our troops fought, they were on the side of the angels. ↗

— Jane Fonda

#belief #deep #fought #grew #i

I prize the Depression, for instance, because I learned the value of things in the Depression that a way people who don't have to worry about such things never learned to prize it really, I believe. ↗

— Shelby Foote

#because #believe #depression #i #i believe

When you grow up in a totally segregated society, where everybody around you believes that segregation is proper, you have a hard time. You can't believe how much it's a part of your thinking. ↗

— Shelby Foote

#believe #believes #everybody #grow #grow up

The rise of China as a new power is another great challenge for the US. Our failure to properly handle Germany and Japan earlier in the 20th century cost us and the world dearly. We must not make this same mistake with China. ↗

— Steve Forbes

#another #century #challenge #china #cost

The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie. ↗

— Harrison Ford

#like #say #sounds #thing #third

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right. ↗

— Henry Ford

#right #thing #whether #you

I really believe that a writer is someone who has trained their mind to misbehave. ↗

— Brad Thor

#i #mind #misbehave #really #someone

All these nice people saying I'm going to be world champion won't make me any faster, you have to believe it yourself. ↗

— Sebastian Vettel

#believe #champion #faster #going #i

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#cruel #die #dogs #free #good