#rick

Westerners know the difference between a talker and the real deal. If Rick Perry wasn't right to be governor of Texas, why should he be president? ↗

— Dick Cheney

#deal #difference #governor #know #perry

I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason. He must be able to detect no inconsistencies in slavery; he must be made to feel that slavery is right; and he can be brought to that only when he ceased to be a man. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#slavery #experience

I have the 'thing' worked out - the trick or the surprise or the pivotal fact. Then I just start somewhere and let the story work itself out. ↗

— Lee Child

#i #itself #just #out #pivotal

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

#any #belief #bricks #building #important

The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penetrated and found response in depths of his own sensuous nature that had never yet been reached. ↗

— Kate Chopin

#been #depths #flame #found #generous

Ireland sober is Ireland stiff. ↗

— James Joyce

#ireland #sober #stiff

The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty. ↗

— William Cobbett

#buoy #empty #falsehoods #last #long

I always admired Stanley Kubrick for the fact that he managed to beat the system somehow. I think he kind of had it all figured out. ↗

— Joel Coen

#always #beat #fact #figured #had

Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#completely #duplicity #full #himself #integrity

Part of what makes you great as a young player can hurt you at the end of your career, in terms of you need a certain amount of ego, a certain amount of arrogance to be able to play well and to push yourself and trick yourself into thinking you're better than you really are. ↗

— David Cone

#amount #arrogance #better #career #certain