#ok

America took me into her bosom when there was no longer a country worthy of the name, but in my heart I am German - German in my soul. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

#america #bosom #country #german #heart

I complained to my mother about wanting to look less like myself and more like my friends. My mother then gave me a lesson in embracing my differences and loving them despite what others said. ↗

— Taye Diggs

#complained #despite #differences #embracing #friends

If you're going to publish a book, you probably are going to make a fool of yourself. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#fool #going #make #probably #publish

My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor. ↗

— Phyllis Diller

#bad #commemorate #cooking #harbor #kids

This letter is written on the skin of one of the water sprites who drowned your parents.' 'Ick!' I cried, and dropped the letter on the kitchen table. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#faery #humor #letter #paranormal #revenge

If you look at the democratic process as a game of chess, there have to be many, many moves before you get to checkmate. And simply because you do not make any checkmate in three moves does not mean it's stalemate. There's a vast difference between no checkmate and stalemate. This is what the democratic process is like. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#because #before #between #checkmate #chess

Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead. ↗

— Omar N. Bradley

#fail #guilt #just #must #prevent

You read constantly that banks are lobbying regulators and elected officials as if this is inappropriate. We don't look at it that way. ↗

— Jamie Dimon

#constantly #elected #elected officials #inappropriate #lobbying

Rescue someone unwilling to look after himself, and he will cling to you like a dangerous illness. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#cling #dangerous #himself #illness #like

None of my friends were ever as broke as I was. ↗