#mom

The BBC has the obligation to think big. And at the moment, that clarion call sounds an uncertain note to me. ↗

— Jonathan Dimbleby

#big #call #me #moment #note

The CIA could not face up to the American people and admit that its former employees had conspired to assassinate the President; so from the moment Kennedy's heart stopped beating, the Agency attempted to sweep the whole conspiracy under the rug. ↗

— Jim Garrison

#agency #american #american people #assassinate #attempted

There is a universal, intelligent, life force that exists within everyone and everything. It resides within each one of use as a deep wisdom, an inner knowing. We can access this wonderful source of knowledge and wisdom through our intuition, an inner sense that tells us what feels right and true for us at any given moment. ↗

— Shakti Gawain

#any #deep #each #everyone #everything

Why should I say I will retire in three or four years? You retire the very moment you utter those words. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#i #moment #retire #say #should

On the unofficial level it was a glorious moment in our national life because young people decided that this had to stop, that they could no longer stand the shedding of blood in this tragic adventure in Southeast Asia. ↗

— William Kunstler

#asia #because #blood #could #decided

I, I don't think anybody's continually happy, uh, except idiots, you know. You know, you have to have little moments of depression. ↗

— Rube Goldberg

#continually #depression #except #happy #i

A little girl who finds a puzzle frustrating might ask her busy mother (or teacher) for help. The child gets one message if her mother expresses clear pleasure at the request and quite another if mommy responds with a curt 'Don't bother me - I've got important work to do.' ↗

— Daniel Goleman

#ask #bother #busy #child #clear

If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment. ↗

— Daniel Goleman

#attend #doing #meditation #moment #you

That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment. ↗

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

#ahead #convincing #following #ground #leadership

My dad never blew anything up, but he probably had friends who did. He and my mom have always preached that the pen is mightier than a Molotov cocktail. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#anything #blew #cocktail #dad #did