#scar

It goes back to all of us wanting to be in Hollywood. We're all dying to win an Oscar. ↗

— Jerry Della Femina

#dying #goes #hollywood #oscar #us

I've arrived at the place if I'm not taking a career risk, I'm not happy. If I'm scared, then I know I'm being challenged. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#being #career #challenged #happy #i

And the Blue Angels are coming back to scare the local population. I remember seeing old Vietnamese women ducking under the benches in Washington Square; they thought they were back in the war. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#back #benches #blue #coming #i

Rations were scarcely issued, and the men about preparing supper, when rumors that the enemy had been encountered that day near Gettysburg absorbed every other interest, and very soon orders came to march forthwith to Gettysburg. ↗

— Joshua Chamberlain

#been #came #day #encountered #enemy

A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, 'Jackie, are you scared?' Of course I'm scared. I'm not Superman. ↗

— Jackie Chan

#course #i #i do #jackie #lot

The ads all call me fearless, but that's just publicity. Anyone who thinks I'm not scared out of my mind whenever I do one of my stunts is crazier than I am. ↗

— Jackie Chan

#am #anyone #call #crazier #fearless

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy. ↗

— Chanakya

#attached #attachment #be happy #discard #experiences

Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#criteria #entering #failure #implications #instances

China is more prosperous than before. The people have better lives but they are not happy and confident because the scars are still there. ↗

— Jung Chang

#before #better #china #confident #happy

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top. ↗

— John Keats

#come #i #i am #kick #scarcely