#own

Within my own life, I read all the beloved novels by lamps of vegetable oil; I saw the Standard Oil invading my own village, I saw gas lamps in the Chinese shops in Shanghai; and I saw their elimination by electric lights. ↗

— Hu Shih

#chinese #electric #elimination #gas #i

When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter. ↗

— Logan P. Smith

#come #downstairs #gutter #idealists #into

People come from a certain generation and a certain whole way of looking at things, and you really do become a prisoner of your own world. ↗

— Matthew Shipp

#certain #come #generation #looking #own

I don't flatter myself with much dependence upon the present disposition of the Eastern Indians, who are many ways liable to be drawn into a rupture with us by the artifices of the French, their own weakness and the influence which the French Missionary Priests have over them. ↗

— William Shirley

#dependence #disposition #drawn #eastern #flatter

That's the biggest rule in Hollywood: Don't spend your own money. ↗

— Pauly Shore

#hollywood #money #own #rule #spend

I, I am my own woman. I have not been, quote, 'bred' to look the other way. I look at that man back there in the green room straight on, eyes wide open, and I look at him with an open heart. ↗

— Maria Shriver

#back #been #bred #eyes #green

But then Iraq happened after September 2001 and America claimed that Al Qaeda was there, and we all know that was a lie and we now know that our own Prime Minister deceived the country terribly. ↗

— Clare Short

#al #america #claimed #country #deceived

Part of what Special Olympics is trying to do is break down stereotypes that still exist for people. There is still a lot of fear. ↗

— Maria Shriver

#down #exist #fear #lot #olympics

And don't consult anyone's opinions but your own. ↗

— Aulus Persius Flaccus

#consult #opinions #own #your

What keeps this industry challenging as an actor is that you never know how something will turn out. The ups and downs are constant. You're never just smoothly sailing along. You're always going to be on loose footing. That's what ultimately now I expect and accept and that doesn't scare me as much. ↗

— Elisabeth Shue

#actor #along #always #challenging #constant