#rut

My former bullies pay extra to come backstage and meet me after shows, and I pretend not to know them in front of their friends. It is the most divine pleasure to exact the revenge of the brutalized child that resides within. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#backstage #brutalized #bullies #child #come

To start telling people that you're beautiful, or just feel beautiful, just start acting like you are the most beautiful woman in the world. And it really improves everything! Because your sort of psyche responds to it - like this is truthful! ↗

— Margaret Cho

#beautiful #beautiful woman #because #everything #feel

State formation has been a brutal project, with many hideous consequences. But the results exist, and their pernicious aspects should be overcome. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#been #brutal #consequences #exist #formation

Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man. ↗

— John Updike

#certain #decided #forced #her #herself

All of us are living with dogmas that we accept as truths. When one of these is overturned, there's an initial gasp, soon followed by a rush of exhilaration. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#dogmas #exhilaration #followed #initial #living

The truth was you can't continue to spend the kind of money our spending on all these entitlement programs. I think we need more people in public life who are willing to say, no, we can't afford certain things. No, we can't do certain things. ↗

— Chris Christie

#certain #certain things #continue #entitlement #entitlement programs

It's not that I'm universally loved. We know I'm not in New Jersey. But what they do say in New Jersey is, 'We like him, and we think he's telling us the truth.' I think we need to have that type of politics on the national level. ↗

— Chris Christie

#i #i think #jersey #know #level

As a revelation from God, they have stood the test of many ages; and as such maintained their ground against every species of enemy, and every mode of attack. Truth is mighty, and must prevail. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#ages #attack #enemy #every #god

The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#author #eminent #end #error #god

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#himself #man #most #occasionally #over