#on

I've been wanting to sing for a long time. I've been singing all my life, and I've tried different record companies, but it seemed like - it was such a struggle and so hard to get out there. So, I said, 'I'm gonna go on American Idol and see how far it takes me.' ↗

— Fantasia Barrino

#american idol #been #companies #different #far

Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them. ↗

— Isaac Barrow

#charitable #commit #courses #design #discretion

No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration which should be preserved inviolate to him. ↗

— Isaac Barrow

#hath #him #his #man #preserved

That justice should be administered between men, it is necessary that testimonies of fact be alleged; and that witnesses should apprehend themselves greatly obliged to discover the truth, according to their conscience, in dark and doubtful cases. ↗

— Isaac Barrow

#administered #alleged #apprehend #between #cases

I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk. ↗

— Lynda Barry

#dialogue #eavesdrop #i #i do #inspirational

It's one thing to have a relationship, to lay your hands on it, and another to make it continue and last. That's something I haven't talked about much in my comic strips, and it's certainly something I'm interested in. ↗

— Lynda Barry

#another #certainly #comic #comic strips #continue

What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary? ↗

— Marion Barry

#because #congress #deem #does #go

I have to admit I didn't do as much as I should have back when I was mayor, but now we're getting it done. It's not where you've been but where you're going. ↗

— Marion Barry

#back #been #done #getting #going

You see, boys forget what their country means by just reading The Land of the Free in history books. Then they get to be men they forget even more. Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books, Miss Saunders. Men should hold it up in front of them every single day of their lives and say: I'm free to think and to speak. My ancestors couldn't, I can, and my children will. Boys ought to grow up remembering that. ↗

— Mr. Jefferson Smith

#mr-jefferson-smith #men

I have always been fond of recognizing the spiritual side of someone's personality. It's a very lovely concept. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#been #concept #fond #i #lovely