#rating

Under the Geneva Convention, for example, a POW is required only to provide name, rank, and serial number and cannot receive any benefits for cooperating. ↗

— John Yoo

#benefits #cannot #convention #cooperating #example

I'm concentrating on the positive, on all the wonderful things I'm doing now. ↗

— Tia Carrere

#doing #i #now #positive #things

I began to enjoy myself: being apoplectic's quite invigorating. ↗

— Jonathan Gash

#apoplectic #invigorating #lovejoy #anger

The problem is I am both a procrastinator and a power junkie, so I am very frustrating to work with. ↗

— Alton Brown

#both #frustrating #i #i am #junkie

There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it. ↗

— Kate DiCamillo

#letting-go #love #loving #separating #separation

This is your birthday treat, and you're supposed to enjoy it, I reminded myself. It was part of my normal existence to give myself instructions like this. Maybe other people acted and lived in total naturalness. I often wondered if they did. But me? I needed an operating manual. ↗

— Lauren Myracle

#enjoy #life-instructions #operating-manual #life

But then self-doubt has always been there for Billy, self-doubt and its cousin the berating voice, these faithful companions have always been on call to help him through the critical junctures of his life. ↗

— Ben Fountain

#self-doubt #faith

After being boxed in by man and his constructions in Europe and the East, the release into space is exhilarating. The horizon is a huge remote circle, and no hills intervene. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#being #boxed #circle #constructions #east

I have a form of Parkinson's disease, which I don't like. My legs don't move when my brain tells them to. It's very frustrating. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

#disease #form #frustrating #i #legs

You're just playing, playing, playing, and then an image or something will come into your mind, and basically you're just narrating it with music, letting it move along. ↗

— Edie Brickell

#basically #come #image #into #just