#pass

With my first pay cheque I sent my parents to Jamaica, so they actually got passports! They're pretty grounded; it wasn't until they saw the trailer for 'Battleship' that they were like, 'Ooh, this is a big movie, isn't it?' ↗

— Brooklyn Decker

#big #big movie #cheque #first #got

Even though mother's issues are not front page news, they touch us all personally, some more than others, and I believe passionately in the power of grassroots engagement. ↗

— Joan Blades

#engagement #even #front #grassroots #i

Moveon is not a one-way broadcast media. The Internet, when used best, is a two-way media. We have a forum in which people can post comments and those comments can be rated. We get a sense of what people feel most passionately about. ↗

— Joan Blades

#best #broadcast #comments #feel #forum

I remember my mother had this deck of cards that her mother had given her and that she passed on to me. It was a gypsy tarot deck that I used to carry everywhere. ↗

— David Blaine

#carry #deck #everywhere #given #gypsy

To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster! ↗

— Denis Diderot

#attempt #complete #desire #destruction #end

One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#also #endlessly #forgets #his #man

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#only #passion

Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship. ↗

— Omar N. Bradley

#every #lights #passing #set #ship

Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s. ↗

— William Blake

#cause #distress #elsewhere #endure #fortitude

Listen, I, I did vote - I did cast a vote for health care, and I also said that I thought the process was horrible. The status quo before we passed health care was also horrible. ↗

— Michael Bennett

#before #care #cast #did #health