#pond

We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverably for ourselves and for others. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#letters #beauty

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it. ↗

— Lou Holtz

#how #life #ninety #percent #respond

The King and Queen made the rounds after the film. We were told how we were to respond, and we were in a semi circle in the lounge area of the cinema, they came around after the King, the Queen and both Princesses. ↗

— Kim Hunter

#area #around #both #came #cinema

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness. ↗

— Helen Keller

#between #bible #bright #cannot #consolations

To make independent films, you can't think about them too much, ponder on them too much, get overwhelmed by the enormity of it. ↗

— Michael Rapaport

#enormity #films #get #independent #independent films

Hollywood is very much an industry town. Your life becomes caught up in all of the parties and this list and that list. That's not something that I respond well to. ↗

— Don Johnson

#caught #hollywood #i #industry #life

I think the Internet, particularly the availability of information, is great. I do a lot of correspondence on-line and have a chat line to talk to my fans as well. ↗

— Anne McCaffrey

#chat #correspondence #fans #great #i

As we try to compete in this global marketplace, we need to rebuild our infrastructure. We need to rebuild our schools. We need to make sure that teachers and first responders and veterans who are coming home from serving our country so proudly have jobs waiting for them. ↗

— Valerie Jarrett

#coming home #compete #country #first #global

If you check your ego at the door when it comes to comedy, you've got a pretty good shot at making a great movie that you can commit yourself to, you can jump off the proverbial cliff with, and have a great time, and the audiences respond to that. ↗

— Dwayne Johnson

#check #cliff #comedy #comes #commit

And how the government communicates about homeland security is central to how the public responds. ↗

— Patrick J. Kennedy

#central #communicates #government #homeland #homeland security