#mo

Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies. ↗

— Howard Thurman

#cause #center #commitment #consent #dies

But last year there were 540,000 people, roughly, detained coming across the border illegally. Forty-five thousand of them came from countries other than Mexico, demonstrating the fact that Mexico itself now is a pathway into the United States for people all around the world, and we don't know what their intentions are. ↗

— John Cornyn

#around #border #came #coming #countries

Waking up with a bad head in the morning is difficult sometimes. ↗

— Caroline Corr

#difficult #head #morning #sometimes #up

Words without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the genocide convention but, more importantly, violates our sense of right and wrong and the standards we have as human beings about looking to care for one another. ↗

— Jon Corzine

#another #beings #care #convention #deeds

People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#bitter #forgive #forgiving #go #imagine

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#anything #around #even #find #laughter

Mr. Speaker, genocide is the most potent of all crimes against humanity because it is an effort to systematically wipe out a people and a culture as well as individual lives. ↗

— Jerry Costello

#because #crimes #culture #effort #genocide

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#fatherhood #love #most #present #pretending

As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by "survival of the fittest." ↗

— Bill Cosby

#brother #child #did #discovered #eggs

But Clint I love, because Clint was my mentor. I knew nothing about making an Italian movie. ↗

— Eli Wallach

#because #clint #i #i love #italian