#owing

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt. ↗

— Max Lerner

#discover #growing #growing up #hurt #point

Because, first of all, we were becoming aware during that tour that there was a group of people that was following the band around, and they weren't interested in coming in to the shows, they were just interested in hangin' out outside and tryin' to break in. ↗

— Phil Lesh

#aware #band #because #becoming #break

Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#better #borrowing #interest #just #lending

No one knows if Saddam is still alive. They keep showing old footage of him on TV saying that it's live. You know, it's like the same thing we do with Dick Cheney. ↗

— David Letterman

#cheney #dick cheney #footage #him #keep

May the United Nations ever be vigilant and potent to defeat the swallowing up of any nation, at any time, by any means-by armies with banners, by force or by fraud, by tricks or by midnight treachery. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

#armies #banners #defeat #ever #force

It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#african #ashamed #doing #easy #educated

Remember, I come from such an excessively overdone, red-carpet place called Hollywood. So I'm used to people blowing up their success in ways that are far above and beyond the truth. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#beyond #blowing #called #come #excessively

But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove. ↗

— Jose Marti

#build #cast #centuries #down #everything

I'd hate to be a teetotaler. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going to feel all day. ↗

— Dean Martin

#day #feel #getting #going #good

Have you ever, on a cloudless night, looked down from a passing aircraft flying over Canada? Endless, glowing strings of cities, towns, and homesteads. Stretching on and on, one province to the next. With only the stars in the distance. ↗

— Paul Martin

#canada #cities #distance #down #endless