#nate

For some years I have spent my time on exactly these questions - both in thinking about ways to prevent war, and in thinking about how to fight, survive, and terminate a war, should it occur. ↗

— Herman Kahn

#both #exactly #fight #how #i

I kind of realized I could sing, so I played around with that for a while. And that led me to acting in itself, which I came more passionate about by the age of 15. ↗

— Toni Collette

#acting #age #around #came #could

When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#dominate #emotions #heavily #other #pay

I had a couple of movies that I was passionately involved with that I could never get made. 'Richard Pryor,' I wrote for - gosh - over a year. That was close to getting made for two-and-a-half years after that. We're still pushing it, you know. It is weird. Suddenly you wake up and it's like, 'God, five years have gone by.' ↗

— Bill Condon

#close #could #couple #five #get

That is why I fought against abortion and that is why if I were still in the Senate I would be doing everything I could to defend the sanctity of marriage. ↗

— Jesse Helms

#against #could #defend #doing #everything

I was the official wedding photographer at one of my best friends' weddings. Fortunately she was one of the most easygoing brides ever, so she made it easy for me. ↗

— Natalie Coughlin

#easy #easygoing #ever #fortunately #friends

You have to remember that coaching wasn't sophisticated back then - you didn't have the camps, clinics and all the technical advances that are available today - so from that standpoint, playing with a cast on my arm was a fortunate event in my life. ↗

— Bob Cousy

#arm #available #back #camps #cast

I remarked constantly, just at sunset, in these latitudes, that the eastern horizon was brilliantly illuminated with a kind of mock sunset. This in a short time disappeared, to be soon succeeded by another similar in character, but more faint. ↗

— George Grey

#brilliantly #character #constantly #disappeared #eastern

Unfortunately, these past few years, you can work hard, try to be as successful as possible, follow the rules, and President Barack Obama will do everything he can to stand in your way. ↗

— Nikki Haley

#barack obama #everything #few #follow #hard

Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#breach #break #break up #dine #engagements