#rise

My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#ashes #being #disaster #expected #garland

I am convinced that the majority of American people do understand that we have a moral responsibility to foster the concepts of opportunity, free enterprise, the rule of law, and democracy. They understand that these values are the hope of the world. ↗

— Richard Lugar

#american #american people #concepts #convinced #democracy

We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers. ↗

— Barney Ross

#eight #enterprise #force #gilbert #got

Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen. ↗

— Robert Staughton Lynd

#especially #most #own #remember #risen

I've been around a long time, and life still has a whole lot of surprises for me. ↗

— Loretta Lynn

#been #i #life #long #long time

Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it. ↗

— Ninon de L'Enclos

#cherish #everything #invites #lives #me

Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny. ↗

— Norm MacDonald

#funny #intending #laugh #make #somebody

Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure. ↗

— Ross MacDonald

#cure #level #nothing #ocean #rise

The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure. ↗

— Ross MacDonald

#concludes #detective #entire #novel #run

I read of the Kalamazoo girl who killed herself after reading the book. I am not at all surprised. She lived in Kalamazoo, for one thing, and then she read the book. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#am #book #girl #herself #i