#om

It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life. ↗

— Dawn French

#beautiful #father #his #i #life

I have had the unfortunate experience of having someone write an unauthorised biography of me. Half of it is lies and the other half is badly written. My feeling is that if I'm going to write my life story, I ought to have my life first. ↗

— Dawn French

#biography #experience #feeling #first #going

Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear. ↗

— James Thurber

#clear #comedy #done #edge #famous

If we really wish to put an end to our ongoing international and social problems we must eventually declare Earth and all of its resources as the common heritage of all the world's people. ↗

— Jacque Fresco

#declare #earth #end #eventually #heritage

Today we have access to highly advanced technologies. But our social and economic system has not kept up with our technological capabilities that could easily create a world of abundance, free of servitude and debt. ↗

— Jacque Fresco

#access #advanced #capabilities #could #create

Really, even in this whole Obama initiative, and everything that's going on with the economy, the only way to jump start it is we have to give each other opportunity. That's the only way to make it work. ↗

— Doug E. Fresh

#economy #even #everything #give #going

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time. ↗

— Anna Freud

#comes #confidence #i #looking #myself

There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#being #between #distinction #does #element

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?' ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#able #answer #answered #been #despite

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#head #heart