#ra

Don't forget we are in a state of war and no peace. But it's very dynamic and challenging compared to the rest of the Arab world. ↗

— Walid Jumblatt

#arab world #challenging #compared #dynamic #forget

In 1918, when I was 6 or 7 years old, radio was just coming into use in the Great War. ↗

— Chuck Jones

#great #great war #i #into #just

Well, directing is doing the key drawings, not the key animation, mind you. ↗

— Chuck Jones

#directing #doing #drawings #key #mind

Politics is not my life. I have a career in radio and another career in film. ↗

— Jesse Ventura

#career #film #i #life #my life

This does make me very very careful, particularly in the second draft, to get it right, because you do feel that somebody in the future who may be extremely important for everybody, is going to have me behind them, and this is a responsibility, a huge one. ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#behind #careful #does #draft #everybody

You cease to move into yourself, away from others. You give up your antagonism. You begin to move toward others in love. God moved toward you in gracious, outgoing love, and you move toward others in that same outgoing love. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

#away #begin #cease #give #god

I would have had the same narrative, regardless of the atmosphere and the restrictions. ↗

— Asghar Farhadi

#had #i #narrative #regardless #restrictions

When we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code, but a character. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

#character #christ #code #human #human life

Where are you going?" I asked, as Frank swung his feet off the bed. "I'd hate the dear old thing to be disappointed in us," he answered. Sitting up on the side of the ancient bed, he bounced gently up and down, creating a piercing rhythmic squeak. The Hoovering in the hall stopped abruptly. After a minute or two of bouncing, he gave a loud, theatrical groan and collapsed backward with a twang of protesting springs. I giggled helplessly into a pillow, so as not to disturb the breathless silence outside. Frank waggled his eyebrows at me. "You're supposed to moan ecstatically, not giggle," he admonished in a whisper. "She'll think I'm not a good lover." "You'll have to keep it up for longer than that, if you expect ecstatic moans," I answered. "Two minutes doesn't deserve any more than a giggle." "Inconsiderate little wench. I came here for a rest, remember?" "Lazybones. You'll never manage the next branch on your family tree unless you show a bit more industry than that. ↗

— Diana Gabaldon

#frank #family

Expressing the thoughts of my comrades, I suggested, among other means, the organization of an international information service on inventories, on production, and on the needs of the various countries for raw materials. ↗

— Leon Jouhaux

#comrades #countries #expressing #i #information