#now

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#calamity #characteristics #courage #faces #grow

I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean. ↗

— Jodie Foster

#action hero #doing #hero #i #i see

Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting. ↗

— Jodie Foster

#came #having #history #hurt #knowing

If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost. ↗

— Michel Foucault

#age #been #between #classical #considerable

If you pray enough for things, I am proof that they can happen. I feel like a kid on Christmas day now, every day. It's something I have wanted for a long time and I am as happy as anyone to be here. It is great to be back at my first love. ↗

— Robbie Fowler

#anyone #back #christmas #christmas day #day

If Iran becomes a nuclear weapon state it is the end of non-proliferation as we know it. If Iran gets a nuclear weapon you are likely to see Saudi, Egypt and other countries follow suit and we will bequeath to the next generation a nuclear arms race in the world's most unstable region. ↗

— Liam Fox

#arms race #becomes #bequeath #countries #egypt

You know what I want? The answer is, I truly don't know what I want. I don't want to do a television series. I want to do dramas as well as comedies, but I have no idea what kind or in what order. Just give me the chance at them. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#chance #comedies #dramas #give #give me

When I was a model, everybody was scrutinising me and I felt I had to go to the gym because my figure had to be fantastic. Now that I'm a singer, I've got a different kind of body - it's more athletic. ↗

— Samantha Fox

#because #body #different #different kind #everybody

Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#i #know #much #now #quite

Well, there's much more time to do a weekly show, and much more coverage - as it turns out, it was all preparation for the stuff I'm doing now - but it was interesting to see how much time was spent on how little airtime, compared to knocking out a show a day on the soaps. ↗

— Jonathan Frakes

#coverage #day #doing #how #i