#pta

One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain's chair of the Enterprise. ↗

— Patrick Stewart

#captain #chair #company #day #england

If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness? ↗

— Sally Struthers

#chopping #forbid #gets #god #kissing

Then, again, the ability to organize and conduct industrial, commercial, or financial enterprises is rare; the great captains of industry are as rare as great generals. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#again #captains #commercial #conduct #enterprises

Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in. ↗

— Billy Sunday

#door #him #inviting #keyhole #looking

I think people want success, you know, and I'm the captain. ↗

— Mats Sundin

#i #i think #know #people #success

The homosexual community has more acceptance in America than it ever has, and the suicide rate is as high as it's always been. ↗

— Randall Terry

#always #america #been #community #ever

Percussion is the most adaptable family of instruments. The biggest challenge is to project percussion in a lyrical way. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#biggest #biggest challenge #challenge #family #instruments

Most centrist Democrats... try to distance themselves from controversies that recall the 1960s. There are journalistic centrists as well, who avoid hard truths for the sake of acceptance and legitimacy. ↗

— Tom Hayden

#avoid #centrist #controversies #democrats #distance

It is a temptation for me to wear all my rings at once. ↗

— Anna Held

#once #rings #temptation #wear

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection ↗

— Gautama Buddha

#life #love #self-acceptance #self-esteem #wisdom