#po

My opponent called me a cream puff. Well, I rushed out and got the baker's union to endorse me. ↗

— Claiborne Pell

#called #cream #endorse #got #i

They were opposite in so many ways, but it was the kind of difference that was balancing-her softness with his steel, his instinct and her logic. He was teaching her by example to have courage in the face of fear, and she badly wanted to help him give voice to his grief and understand it was all right to feel pain. ↗

— Melissa Cutler

#contemporary #romance #suspense #courage

The joy we get as actors is out of transforming ourselves into something that's not necessarily anything true to ourselves. And it's a power - not being yourself, and being in the role; it's just like another prop. ↗

— Reese Witherspoon

#anything #being #being yourself #get #into

I've learned that to expose yourself, to reveal yourself is a test of your humanness. ↗

— Isabelle Adjani

#humanness #i #learned #reveal #test

As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me! ↗

— Samuel Pepys

#any #happy #man #me #seems

I don't want foreign policy developed just by one party and ride roughshod over the other party. ↗

— Charles H. Percy

#foreign #foreign policy #i #just #other

I think in the early part of my career, the roles were so disparate that it never gave anybody an opportunity to understand my essence and what I would be good at doing, as opposed to what I would not be good at doing, so these little moments of beautiful things that were happening to me were consistent, but very few and very far between. ↗

— Ron Perlman

#beautiful #beautiful things #between #career #consistent

The humble are in danger when those in power disagree. ↗

— Phaedrus

#disagree #humble #power #those

Life is filled with unanswered questions, but it is the courage to seek those answers that continues to give meaning to life. You can spend your life wallowing in despair, wondering why you were the one who was led towards the road strewn with pain, or you can be grateful that you are strong enough to survive it. ↗

— J.D. Stroube

#despair #inspiration #life #meaning #pain

If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer's crop, who are we to say it shouldn't rain? ↗

— Tom Barrett

#farmer #our #picnic #rain #saves