#mon

Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

#attitude #circumstances #education #important #money

When I finished the role of Christ, I felt as though I'd been let out on parole. A man who has served 18 months isn't eager to go back to prison. ↗

— Max von Sydow

#been #christ #eager #felt #finished

I love doing demonstrations. I think to be a great chef you have to be a great teacher. I love doing classes with people who love food and enjoy food, bringing them all around one table so to speak. ↗

— Michael Symon

#bringing #chef #classes #demonstrations #doing

Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#among #because #collective #creates #democratic

An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say your rap, you can rock the party. ↗

— Ice T

#control #crowd #master #only #party

I started rapping before anybody had ever bought a car from it. It was truly about the art form and the culture, more so than now, where it's a successful way to make money. Back then you had to be doing it because you liked it. ↗

— Ice T

#anybody #art #art form #back #because

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#bestowed #better #blesses #days #gives

Without growth we can't pay down our debt, and without growth there's no money for welfare. ↗

— Helle Thorning-Schmidt

#down #growth #money #our #pay

It defies all common sense to send that roughneck ward politician back to the White House. ↗

— Robert Taft

#common #common sense #defies #house #politician

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#commonplace #ideal #people #present #quite