#pta

Once it becomes impossible for members of Congress to make a career of legislative service, the temptation to bend a vote for whatever reason may yield to the better angels of their nature. ↗

— James L. Buckley

#becomes #bend #better #career #congress

Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully. ↗

— Julie Burchill

#easier #fame #gracefully #growing #growing old

Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness. ↗

— Richard Carlson

#form #illness #mental #mental illness #more

The moonlight rained down on the beach as if to shine a spotlight on my solitude, and I wanted to cry out at it, ‘Why did you take her? You, surrounded by all of your twinkling stars and infinite wonders and darkness. There’s already enough beauty where you are. ↗

— Rachael Wade

#closure #death #denial #grief #loss

If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly. ↗

— Iris Chang

#conditions #could #economic #great #often

I think it's important to remember that Christianity was based in love and tolerance and forgiveness and acceptance. ↗

— Kristin Chenoweth

#based #christianity #forgiveness #i #i think

I'm not talking about the blood ecstasy. I'm talking about my being able to fill that emotion void she has. You know her as well as I do, maybe better. She aches with it. She needs to be accepted for who she is so badly. And I was able to do that. Do you know good that felt? To be able to show someone that, yes, you are someone worth sacrificing for? That you like them for their faults and that you respect them for their ability to rise above them? ↗

— Kim Harrison

#acceptance-of-others #friendship #friendship-true-and-loyal #inspirational #love

Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

#because #deems #every #every man #hardest

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#cannot #make #nothing #oratory #unbelievable

Directors are the captains of the ship, and it's your job as the lead actor to make sure that the rest of the cast understand that by doing whatever he says. ↗

— George Clooney

#captains #cast #directors #doing #job