#ron

Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh. ↗

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

#common people #cowards #dread #empty #laugh

I didn't have anybody, really, no foundation in life, so I had to make my own way. Always, from the start. I had to go out in the world and become strong, to discover my mission in life. ↗

— Tina Turner

#anybody #become #discover #foundation #go

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so. ↗

— Mark Twain

#mighty #nothing #prevail #truth #truth is

The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#always #appeal #circumstances #colored #desire

Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding. ↗

— Kenneth Tynan

#artist #beyond #comprehensible #forever #himself

Our work on light bulbs wasn't an arbitrary mandate. We didn't just pick a standard out of the air, or look for a catchy sounding standard like 25 by 2025 not based in science or feasibility. Instead, we worked with both industry and environmental groups to come up with a standard that made sense and was doable. ↗

— Fred Upton

#arbitrary #based #both #bulbs #catchy

You can imagine my embarrassment when I killed the wrong guy. ↗

— Joe Valachi

#guy #i #imagine #killed #wrong

I'm stronger and sassier as a redhead. ↗

— Kate Walsh

#redhead #stronger

People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong. ↗

— Bill Vaughan

#day #every #every day #learn #learned

Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#attention #child #force #going #hope