#po

Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success. ↗

— Og Mandino

#being overwhelmed #character #emergencies #failure #highway

For men, as they get bogged down with responsibilities, commitments, bureaucracy, it is a fantasy just to think of shedding everything literally, walking away with nothing at all, and just hitting the road. ↗

— Lee Child

#bogged #bureaucracy #commitments #down #everything

They missed a great opportunity to shut up. ↗

— Jacques Chirac

#great opportunity #missed #opportunity #shut #shut up

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five. ↗

— John Updike

#appeals #become #child #childlike #count

When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas. ↗

— John Updike

#east #i #i write #kansas #little

The planet does nothing but support us, and we are constantly committing crimes against nature. ↗

— Daphne Zuniga

#committing #constantly #crimes #does #nature

Nuclear is not only emissions-free, but renewing our commitment to nuclear power will create countless jobs at a time when our nation endures nearly double-digit unemployment. ↗

— Fred Upton

#countless #create #double-digit #endures #jobs

Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission. ↗

— Shirley Chisholm

#cases #commission #congress #extreme #hearings

Keep in mind that there are computers, that do touch things up. Like when I got a hold of the poster for 'Gold Diggers,' I said: 'Hey, wait a minute! Those aren't my teeth!' ↗

— Anna Chlumsky

#gold #got #hey #hold #i

Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#commit #crime #illusion #immeasurable #insult