#par

I let my game do the talking. I've had incidents like that but when I compare my own story to the stories that have happened forty or fifty years ago particularly to Jackie Robinson for example. ↗

— Maurice Ashley

#compare #example #fifty #for example #forty

I think Ian McKellen made it all happen, because he used to throw dinner parties and invite everyone over. ↗

— Shawn Ashmore

#dinner #dinner parties #everyone #happen #i

The only very rugged part of the route is in crossing the Big Horn mountain, which is about 30 miles wide. ↗

— William Henry Ashley

#big #crossing #horn #miles #mountain

He loves me. Inside his head, his every thought and reaction was born of love, love inside and out, crazy, irrational (and sure, a bit lustful) love. He loves me, and that's also what terrified him when he saw me all lit up like a Christmas tree. He doesn't know what I am, but he loves me. ↗

— Cynthia Hand

#love

That was not part of the U.N. resolution; it was not part of the mandate to go on to Baghdad and, frankly, if we had gone into Baghdad and pushed Saddam Hussein off, we would have inherited an even bigger mess than the mess we inherited with the refugee problem. ↗

— Les Aspin

#bigger #even #frankly #go #gone

Where there is injury let me sow pardon. ↗

— Francis of Assisi

#me #pardon #sow #where

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#misfortune #parent #rashness #unhappy

Marry for Love, an Heroick Action, which makes a mighty noise in the World, partly because of its rarity, and partly in regard of its extravagancy. ↗

— Mary Astell

#because #love #makes #marry #mighty

To plead for the Oppress'd and to defend the Weak seem'd to me a generous undertaking; for tho' it may be secure, 'tis not always Honourable to run over to the strongest party. ↗

— Mary Astell

#defend #generous #honourable #may #me

I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero. ↗

— Mackenzie Astin

#audition #because #even #flack #force