#resents

My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish. ↗

— Flip Wilson

#birthday #box #childhood #cracker #ever

I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#drama #gets #i #i think #information

Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#conquering #endured #energy #every #fund

I'm happy with the way everyone presents themselves onstage. ↗

— Daisy Berkowitz

#happy #i #onstage #presents #themselves

Presents can make up for some of the disappointments that life doles out, such as it makes almost no sense and is coming to an end more quickly than ever. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#coming #disappointments #end #ever #life

The theoretically unrestricted right to develop power, to wage war against other states, is antisocial and is doubly dangerous, because the state as a mass entity represents a low moral and intellectual level. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#antisocial #because #dangerous #develop #doubly

After a breakup, it takes a couple weeks for the fog to settle, but it's always a period of self-priority and growth. Life presents you with so many decisions. A lot of times, they're right in front of your face and they're really difficult, but we must make them. ↗

— Brittany Murphy

#always #breakup #couple #decisions #difficult

I often buy myself presents. Sometimes I will spend $100,000 in one day in a posh boutique. ↗

— Celine Dion

#buy #day #i #myself #often

The Tea Party represents stakeholders in the American system; people who were never involved in politics or thought they had to be, yet realized that political corruption and incompetence threatened not only their families, but the future of the nation itself. ↗

— Tammy Bruce

#corruption #families #future #had #incompetence

O'Neill presents a very complex multi-layered kind of challenge. His characters are always deeply complex and, to a great extent, inaccessible. ↗

— Gabriel Byrne

#challenge #characters #complex #deeply #extent