#red

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#doubt #easily #either #endured #pain

I'd been kind of a hiccup in my parents' lives. They lost track of me and I didn't know what I was going to do with myself. And then fate reached in and took me in its hands. I was discovered right out of high school and started getting work. ↗

— Sally Field

#discovered #fate #getting #going #hands

My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.' ↗

— Sally Field

#enough #fired #good #i #movies

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#books #contempt #desire #even #glory

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#eye #idea #no idea #outlandish #same

The return to the Organization of the United States of America, the bearers of a great and diversified democratic culture that has inspired many other peoples. ↗

— Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

#bearers #culture #democratic #diversified #great

Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. ↗

— Galeazzo Ciano

#fathers #hundred #orphan #victory

A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea. ↗

— John Ciardi

#bear #bolt #good #hope #idea

When I first came to New York I was a dancer, and a French record label offered me a recording contract and I had to go to Paris to do it. So I went there and that's how I really got into the music business. But I didn't like what I was doing when I got there, so I left, and I never did a record there. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#came #contract #dancer #did #doing

I'm still friendly with Dean. He still calls me on the phone from time to time. John Dean was fired and later ended up spending some time in prison for his role in Watergate. ↗

— Fred F. Fielding

#dean #ended #fired #friendly #from time to time