#ms

The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions. ↗

— Barbara Bush

#in my opinion #left #opinion #out #personal

A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man's heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

#away #blowing #blown #blown away #breeze

I never felt comfortable with making political decisions based on whether, you know, it was the right thing to do in terms of a poll. ↗

— Jeb Bush

#comfortable #decisions #felt #i #know

All of us gave it all we've got, overcame a whole lot just being on the show and learned a lot about ourselves. We're just normal people trying to do what we love and follow our dreams. ↗

— Carrie Underwood

#being #dreams #follow #gave #got

I own four copies of Robin WIlliams's Live on Broadway comedy special for HBO. One in Wilmington, one in L.A., one in my trailer, and one at my parents' house. I can watch it over and over again and it never gets old. He is the funniest, wittiest man on the planet! ↗

— Sophia Bush

#broadway #comedy #copies #four #funniest

I've always wanted to fight for people who didn't have arms. I've always wanted to speak up for people who don't have a voice. I've always wanted to protect people who couldn't protect themselves. It's my nature. It's my instinct. ↗

— Sophia Bush

#arms #fight #i #instinct #nature

Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#dreams #good #more #mr #prayer

People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#entire #extremely #love #might #miserable

The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#anything #call #external #external things #good

The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#attain #capacity #considered #greatest #greatest happiness