#owing

Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#arbiter #authority #conflicting #force #men

In Hollywood you can't even smoke in a bar anymore and yet in the movies they're always showing people smoking. I don't get it. ↗

— Gerald McRaney

#anymore #bar #even #get #hollywood

President Johnson had a habit of throwing dollars at a question and the question would disappear. ↗

— Wilbur Mills

#dollars #habit #had #johnson #president

My parents were very poor, but we never felt any sense of need or want. It was a very close, loving, tightly-knit family growing up, and I never felt any sense of deprivation or anything like that. ↗

— George J. Mitchell

#anything #close #deprivation #family #felt

We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken to no plea of ignorance, and measure out their rewards and punishments with calm indifference. ↗

— Paul Elmer More

#bound #calm #hearken #ignorance #indifference

You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect. ↗

— Miyamoto Musashi

#does #enemy #expect #knowing #timing

I was always the new kid in school, I'm the kid from a broken family, I'm the kid who had no dad showing up at the father-son stuff, I'm the kid that was using food stamps at the grocery store. ↗

— Dave Mustaine

#broken #dad #family #food #food stamps

My mom and dad got divorced when I was very young, and growing up in a family where the head of the household wasn't a man made a big difference. ↗

— Dave Mustaine

#big difference #dad #difference #divorced #family

I was very blessed in always knowing what I wanted to do, and by the grace of God I've been able to succeed in my chosen career. ↗

— Nichelle Nichols

#always #been #blessed #career #chosen

I came here knowing nobody. I worked clubs as a singer and even the doors a few times before I landed some TV roles. ↗

— Chazz Palminteri

#came #clubs #doors #even #few