#own

Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own. ↗

— Ethel Merman

#also #always #brought #christmas #couple

I am known to be able to take care of myself when I become angry. I don't mince words. ↗

— Ethel Merman

#am #angry #become #care #i

And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five. ↗

— James Merrill

#astonishing #become #external #five #his

The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities. ↗

— Pat Metheny

#beauty #jazz #malleable #own #people

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#else #existence #fails #find #finding

Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#effects #good #leaves #love #loved

I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#cannot #conform #even #fancies #i

Like I said, a 30-year-old hockey player, even when I came to New York when I was 30, I was on the downside of my career, pretty much the end of my career. ↗

— Mark Messier

#career #downside #end #even #hockey

I'm surprised that I've survived my own dysfunction, really. ↗

— George Michael

#i #my own #own #really #surprised

In Europe the right wing is bogged down in Nationalism in most cases and still fighting so called Reds. ↗

— Tom Metzger

#called #cases #down #europe #fighting