#pre

The lavish presentation appeals to me, and I've got to convince the others. ↗

— Freddie Mercury

#convince #got #i #lavish #me

So long as there shall exist, by reason of law and custom, a social condemnation, which, in the face of civilisation, artificially creates hells on earth, and complicates a destiny that is divine, with human fatality; so long as the three problems of the age — the degradation of man by poverty, the ruin of woman by starvation, and the dwarfing of childhood by physical and spiritual night — are not solved; so long as, in certain regions, social asphyxia shall be possible; in other words, and from a yet more extended point of view, so long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#introduction #preface #age

When I was 8, I was reading 'Gone with the Wind' and 'Pride and Prejudice' and all that, not knowing it wasn't my reading level. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#gone with the wind #i #knowing #level #not knowing

I choose to be more prepared than I'm expected to be. ↗

— Michael Michele

#expected #i #more #prepared #than

Poland is an ally of the United States of America. It was our duty to show that we are a reliable, loyal, and predictable ally. America needed our help, and we had to give it. ↗

— Adam Michnik

#america #duty #give #had #help

Your connections might get you in the door, but it won't keep you there. And if you haven't prepared, you'll suck. ↗

— Vic Mignogna

#door #get #haven #keep #might

I am very adamant about keeping my private life private. I don't prefer to talk about my family. ↗

— Luis Miguel

#adamant #am #family #i #i am

As the President has indicated, my life has been a life of travel - for 60 years constantly moving over the wide world on journeys which first and last have taken me to 83 countries, and, what is more significant, to most of them again and again. ↗

— John Raleigh Mott

#been #constantly #countries #first #indicated

Television preachers extract money from the poor to live in a style and to indulge in shameful acts which equal or outdo the worst of the Renaissance Popes. ↗

— J. Irwin Miller

#equal #extract #indulge #live #money

Serenity is knowing that your worst shot is still pretty good. ↗

— Johnny Miller

#knowing #pretty #pretty good #serenity #shot