#p

If I grew up in the simple-minded belief that women were as strong and intelligent as men, it was because I came from a society that had once believed it. ↗

— Shirley Abbott

#scotch-irish #strength #intelligence

I've stopped drinking, but only while I'm asleep. ↗

— George Best

#drinking #i #only #stopped #while

Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible. ↗

— Mary McLeod Bethune

#factor #faith #first #impossible #life

Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful. ↗

— Charles Bradlaugh

#free #free speech #possible #search #speech

I feel safe in saying this, and that is that Peter Weir is without a doubt one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. I'd open a door in a movie for him if he asked me to. ↗

— Paul Bettany

#door #doubt #feel #filmmakers #greatest

I walked out of the show business in 1968 because I thought that would be good for the family. It took me some time to decide but I wanted to spend more time with my wife and two daughters who were always beside me. I wanted to do everything I could for them. ↗

— Pete Best

#because #beside #business #could #daughters

I was close to John simply because I liked him as a person. He liked me as a person. We spent a lot of times at one another's houses back in Liverpool. We spent a lot of time together in Germany. ↗

— Pete Best

#back #because #close #germany #him

Many things have been said about what happened, but I don't know either. Maybe someday. One thing I'm sure of is that all the things that have happened to me, good and bad, happy and sad, have made me what I am today. ↗

— Pete Best

#am #bad #been #either #good

We were at our best when we were playing in the dance halls of Liverpool and Hamburg. The world never saw that. ↗

— Pete Best

#dance #halls #hamburg #liverpool #never

I confess it is beyond our power to awaken the heart, but ordinarily this way does good. ↗

— Thomas Hooker

#beyond #confess #does #good #heart