#rep

I was always a clown. In the eighth grade I won a city speech contest by doing an Eddie Murphy routine. I'm no good at public speaking, but if I can assume a role and speak as that person, then I'm fine. When I had to give a book report, I always did it in character. ↗

— Jason Wiles

#assume #book #character #city #clown

I mean, the general rule is if you're not prepared to make a mistake, you're not going to make much progress. ↗

— Maurice Wilkins

#general rule #going #i #make #mean

In the sports arena I would say there is nothing like training and preparation. You have to train your mind as much as your body. ↗

— Venus Williams

#body #i #like #mind #much

You can't undo the past... but you can certainly not repeat it. ↗

— Bruce Willis

#past #repeat #undo #you

If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love. ↗

— Nathaniel Parker Willis

#anything #human #human love #ill #keeps

As I've said repeatedly, Republicans are very good at describing things in black and white; Democrats are very good at describing the 11 shades of gray. ↗

— Joseph C. Wilson

#black and white #democrats #describing #good #gray

This I regard as a classic example of my not being properly prepared for a part I very much wanted. ↗

— Marie Windsor

#classic #classic example #example #i #much

We need repentance. You see, repentance is not only going to a priest and confessing. We must free ourselves from the obsession of thoughts. We fall many times during our life, and it is absolutely necessary to reveal everything [in Confession] to a priest who is a witness to our repentance. Repentance is the renewal of life. This means we must free ourselves from all our negative traits and turn toward absolute good. No sin is unforgivable except the sin of unrepentance. ↗

— Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

#confession #eastern-orthodoxy #forgiveness #good #obsession

Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it. ↗

— Benjamin Whorf

#device #experience #framework #language #reporting

In the Tea Party era, it is the restless conservative Republican who has become passion's plaything, the toy of impetuous romance, an erotomania only intensified by the lusting for an upstart savior. ↗

— James Wolcott

#conservative #era #impetuous #intensified #only