#own

One moment you appear to be riding the crest of a wave, only to have the rug pulled away from you, bringing you back down to earth with a sickening thud. ↗

— John Barrow

#away #back #bringing #crest #down

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. ↗

— John Barth

#hero #his #life #life story #necessarily

I started off at the high level, in the slick magazines, but they didn't use my name, they used house names. Anyway, then I went downhill to the pulps, then downhill further to the comics. ↗

— Mickey Spillane

#comics #downhill #further #high #high level

Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

#because #business #cannot #deposits #failed

My list of things I never pictured myself saying when I pictured myself as a parent has grown over the years. ↗

— Polly Berrien Berends

#i #list #myself #never #over

In this industry, the new owners prefer to kill anything they weren't responsible for. ↗

— Tom Berenger

#industry #kill #new #owners #prefer

Texas is a country in its own. It's made up of half Mexico/half United States but completed mixed. I don't mean to draw a generalization but it is a place, a territory, that's really made up of all these encounters, you know? ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

#country #draw #encounters #generalization #half

My life has ever been devoted to her service from my youth up, though never before in a cause like this - a cause for which I would most cheerfully risk and lay down my life. ↗

— David Wooster

#before #cause #cheerfully #devoted #down

Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#due #emotion #error #ideas #lead

Real family values have gone down the drain in modern families. ↗

— Wes Borland

#drain #families #family #family values #gone