#om

I used to be a discipline problem, which caused me embarrassment until I realized that being a discipline problem in a racist society is sometimes an honor. ↗

— Ishmael Reed

#caused #discipline #embarrassment #honor #i

There's something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on Earth but not quite. ↗

— John C. Reilly

#earth #feeling #kind #peaceful #quite

Having committed ourselves to Iraq, we must prevail, and to prevail, we must fund all of the requirements for our military. We must do it adequately and promptly, and the administration is doing neither. ↗

— Jack Reed

#administration #committed #doing #fund #having

We are today, in this country, convulsed by the situation in Iraq. It is an extraordinary crisis. It is taxing our men and women in uniform, and it is certainly taxing our resolve. ↗

— Jack Reed

#country #crisis #extraordinary #iraq #men

I got my first guitar at age of 7 and never laid it down. Momma taught me G, C, and D. I was off to the races son! ↗

— Jerry Reed

#down #first #got #guitar #i

The South: What is this place? What's different about it? Is it different anymore? Good questions. Old ones, too. People have been asking them for decades. Some of us even make our living by asking them, but we still don't agree about the answers. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#agree #answers #anymore #asking #been

I think there's a suspicion in the South of people putting on airs. You see it in most successful Southern politicians, but you also see it in someone like Richard Petty, who may be a multimillionaire stock car driver, but he's also beloved because he has a nice self-deprecatory way about him. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#airs #also #because #beloved #car

I built my marriage brick by brick. And I destroyed it blanket by blanket.
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— Jarod Kintz

#brick-and-blanket-iq-test #brick-and-blanket-responses #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #funny

I've never worked so hard for anything in my life as I have for you. ↗

— Sylvia Day

#romance #life

You're an addiction...my obsession... ↗

— Sylvia Day

#love #romance #love