#rain

This may be a dream, but I'll say it anyway: I was supposed to be married last year, and I bought a gown. When I meet Nelson Mandela, I shall put on this gown and have the train of it removed and put aside, and kiss the ground that he walks on and then kiss his feet. ↗

— Nina Simone

#aside #bought #dream #feet #gown

The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all. ↗

— Alan K. Simpson

#liberal #merely #mind #nourishes #practical

And I wasn't a journalist any more than I was a trained nurse. ↗

— May Sinclair

#i #journalist #more #nurse #than

I was originally cast to be the brains of the Enterprise. Somehow I became The Chick. There's a little ugly girl inside of me going 'Yay! I'm a sex symbol!' ↗

— Marina Sirtis

#brains #cast #chick #enterprise #girl

Surely the Department of Defense can and needs to do a better job of training new and existing first responders to respond to sexual assaults occurring in the military. ↗

— Louise Slaughter

#better #better job #defense #department #existing

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature. ↗

— Adam Smith

#benevolent #constitute #exercise #feel #human

Healing rain is a real touch from God. It could be physical healing or emotional or whatever. ↗

— Michael W. Smith

#emotional #god #healing #physical #rain

We are America; we don't torture. And the moment that is not the case, I want off the train. ↗

— Shepard Smith

#case #i #moment #off #torture

I've trained myself to illuminate the things in my personality that are likable and to hide and protect the things that are less likeable. ↗

— Will Smith

#i #illuminate #less #likable #likeable

It's less about the physical training, in the end, than it is about the mental preparation: boxing is a chess game. You have to be skilled enough and have trained hard enough to know how many different ways you can counterattack in any situation, at any moment. ↗

— Jimmy Smits

#any #boxing #chess #chess game #different