#lie

I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color. ↗

— Malcolm X

#believe #color #human #human beings #i

I left because I could no longer make records that sounded less and less like me. I tried to please people instead of believing in my own strength, until the only thing I could do was walk away. ↗

— Melissa Manchester

#because #believing #could #i #i tried

But I lived a lie. I lived it out of anger. This is what I am trying to tell you. I have lived lies. I have done it again and again. I live lies because I cannot endure the weakness of anger and I cannot admit the irrationality of love. Oh the lies I have told myself and others. I knew it yet I didn't know. ↗

— Anne Rice

#anger

Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so. ↗

— Marya Mannes

#down #faucet #grow #leak #learn

I became the toast of London. A lot of people I met came from these really decadent families where the married men were gay and no one thought anything about it. ↗

— Robert Mapplethorpe

#anything #became #came #decadent #families

My studies are going well. The university library is my second home now. They've had to get me a private room because it takes me only a second to absorb the printed page, and curious students invariably gather around me as I flip through my books. ↗

— Daniel Keyes

#flowers-for-algernon #home

My focus on the budget, though, has played second fiddle to what I believe is even more important - creating jobs. ↗

— Jack Markell

#budget #creating #even #fiddle #focus

Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; but a greater thing is to fight life through and say at the end, the dream is true! ↗

— Edwin Markham

#believe #dream #end #fight #great

Only God knows why I didn't make it with the Mets, but yes, in a short period of time, I got the opportunity with the Phillies. ↗

— Pedro Martinez

#got #i #knows #make #mets

My father, his spirit is with me constantly, and I'm a believer in that world and the world of dreams and that stuff. ↗

— Ziggy Marley

#constantly #dreams #father #his #i