#ow

English policy may not yet have made the definite decision to attack us; but it doubtless wishes, by all and every means, even the most extreme, to hinder every further expansion of German international influence and of German maritime power. ↗

— Bernhard von Bulow

#decision #definite #doubtless #english #even

I had no style when I was 17! I look at teenagers now and say, 'I wish I'd looked like them when I was that age.' I had no style whatsoever, but style also wasn't as prominent as it is today. I was just very laid back, usually wearing jeans and tank tops and flip flops. ↗

— Candace Cameron Bure

#also #back #flip #flops #had

For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive. ↗

— Fanny Burney

#acquaintance #alive #comes #confess #finding

Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized. ↗

— Leo Buscaglia

#away #being #day #just #life

I remember, in the winter of our first experiments, just seven years ago, looking on snow with new eyes. ↗

— Edward M. Purcell

#experiments #eyes #first #i #i remember

I emphasize... that the Harrimans showed great courage and loyalty and confidence in us, because three or four of us were really running the business, the day to day business. ↗

— Prescott Bush

#business #confidence #courage #day #day to day

I know that if I wasn't scared, something's wrong, because the thrill is what's scary. ↗

— Richard Pryor

#i #know #scared #scary #something

It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#hollywood #hope #life #matter #phony

The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#her #his #impossible #internal #needs

The American soldier is quick in adapting himself to a new mode of living. Outfits which have been here only three days have dug vast networks of ditches three feet deep in the bare brown earth. They have rigged up a light here and there with a storage battery. ↗

— Ernie Pyle

#american #bare #battery #been #brown