#rot

We've been a country that's been fortunate to be protected by two oceans, to not have serious attacks on our territory for most of our history. And we were unfortunately reminded in a very devastating way of our vulnerability. ↗

— Condoleezza Rice

#been #country #devastating #fortunate #history

Tremendous beauty and tremendous ugliness puts you on the outside of things. ↗

— Peter Bogdanovich

#dorothy-swenson #irony #outsider #beauty

The pressure suit helps if something goes wrong during launch or re-entry - astronauts have a way to parachute off the shuttle. The suits protect you from loss of pressure in case of emergency. ↗

— Sally Ride

#case #during #emergency #goes #helps

I didn't choose a word or anything. I just wrote the song until it stopped. ↗

— Marty Robbins

#choose #i #just #song #stopped

To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it. ↗

— William Glasser

#depressed #happened #neurotic #over #over it

This United States Government should go down to Mississippi and protect my people. That is what should happen. ↗

— Paul Robeson

#go #government #happen #mississippi #people

I never kept a diary, but I wrote detailed notes of my travels. ↗

— David Rockefeller

#diary #i #kept #never #notes

Animals don't have anyone to protect them. If we don't stand up, the people who are harming animals will never get stopped. ↗

— Paul Rodriguez

#get #harming #never #people #protect

So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip. ↗

— Will Rogers

#family #gossip #live #parrot #sell

Growing up with three brothers and three sisters, I was the storyteller of the family... what my mother called 'The Liar.' ↗

— James Rollins

#called #family #growing #growing up #i