#lower

If I tried to shout over my older brother, my mother told me keep quiet. If I tried to shout over my little sister, my father told me to shut up. I found the best way to be heard was to lower my voice and actually speak when I had something to say. ↗

— Peter Welch

#best #best way #brother #father #found

I'm an introvert... I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky. ↗

— Audrey Hepburn

#dogs #flowers #i #i love #introvert

Shoot a lower score than everybody else. ↗

— Ben Hogan

#everybody #everybody else #lower #score #shoot

I want to grow a flower for every time someone tells me “F*** you.” Then I’ll go back to that person and pin the flower on their lapel in a gesture of friendship. And while they are looking down on it in astonishment, I’ll bunch up my knuckles and punch them in the face. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#friendship #hilarious #humor #punch #ravings

I think it's a change that I did not intend at the time but it is clear that, from The Flower of My Secret on, there is a change in my films. A lot of the journalists have very generously attributed this to my growing maturity. ↗

— Pedro Almodovar

#change #clear #did #films #flower

President Obama has lowered taxes more than he has raised them, and they are today lower than they were in President Reagan's time. But you don't hear conservatives crowing about that. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#conservatives #hear #lower #lowered #more

Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. ↗

— Hans Christian Anderson

#enough #flower #freedom #just #just living

I think the millions of people who had been able to renegotiate their mortgages so they are paying lower interest rates are better off. ↗

— David Axelrod

#been #better #better off #had #i

The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number. ↗

— Abu Bakar Bashir

#even #followers #his #islam #number

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#approximate #characters #example #followers #imitate