#ned

I've always said, 'I am a selector, I am not defector' - the first few phrases in English I learned. I said I hate 'defector'; something defective about the people. It's a bad word. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#always #am #bad #defective #english

Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind. ↗

— Shania Twain

#come and go #down #feather #go #life

Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they were sustained by their faith in God, and God alone. ↗

— Abu Bakar Bashir

#alone #among #during #faith #god

If I were the president, I would be very concerned... and I would do what was reasonably necessary to find a way to get my people confirmed. ↗

— Max Baucus

#confirmed #find #get #i #necessary

There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#existence #heightened #immensely #moments #more

I've succeeded as far as I'm concerned - I don't feel that I have any cliffs I could fall over anytime soon. ↗

— Shania Twain

#anytime #as far as #cliffs #concerned #could

If I hadn't had a childhood career, I probably would've signed a contract with the first person I came across. ↗

— Shania Twain

#came #career #childhood #contract #first

I dislike the word 'victim.' I dislike being told that I 'lost' my husband - as if I had idly abandoned you by the side of the railway track like an unwanted pair of old shoes. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#being #dislike #had #husband #i

I was cleaning out the pigsty at a farm in Wales, where my mother had rented a room, when the results of my final school exam were handed to me by the postman, along with the news that I had a state scholarship to Oxford. I had waited for this letter for so many weeks that I had abandoned hope, deciding that I had failed ignominiously. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#along #cleaning #deciding #exam #failed

It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot. ↗

— Edmond About

#collected #country #every #examined #i