#par

My training of cold-calling and everyone under the sun telling me no, and my keeping going, was a huge part of the first two years of Spanx. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#first #going #huge #keeping #me

As I went to college, I went into radio and television. Now I suppose most people think that's one step ahead of basket weaving as a major in college, but it was part of the journalism department. ↗

— Sam Donaldson

#basket #college #department #i #into

When I cut the feet out of my pantyhose that one time, I saw it as my sign. I had been visualizing being self employed prior to this happening. It was my mental preparation meeting the opportunity in that moment. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#being #cut #employed #feet #had

As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there. ↗

— John Donne

#compose #determine #differences #doors #families

The Democratic Party is like a mule. It has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity. ↗

— Ignatius Donnelly

#democratic #democratic party #hope #like #mule

I supported my friend Congressman Shuler over former Speaker Nancy Pelosi during our party's leadership elections in November citing a need for new leadership. ↗

— Joe Donnelly

#congressman #during #elections #former #friend

Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#fashionable #longer #masks #new #new york

When I was doing half-hour shows, I loved it and was preparing myself for the hour shows. Then when I did the hour shows, I was preparing myself for the specials and features. ↗

— Richard Donner

#doing #features #half-hour #hour #i

Since the conception of our country, America has held that parents, not schools, teachers, and certainly not courts, hold the primary responsibility of educating their children. ↗

— John Doolittle

#certainly #children #conception #country #courts

The last part, the part you're now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness. ↗

— Charles Van Doren

#aristotle #happiness #important #last #most