#so

The toughest part was doing it in front of the world and recognizing that you had gotten to a point where if you didn't do something you were going to die. ↗

— Star Jones

#doing #front #going #gotten #had

I feel very fortunate to have been associated with people such as Rodgers and Hammerstein. I think they were geniuses of their time. ↗

— Shirley Jones

#been #feel #fortunate #geniuses #hammerstein

I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know the poems would travel. I didn't go to Lebanon until two years ago, but people told me that many Arabs had memorized these poems and translated them into Arabic. ↗

— June Jordan

#arabic #arabs #being #country #go

As we take stock of this century of achievement, Ulster Unionists have every reason to feel proud. ↗

— David Trimble

#century #every #feel #proud #reason

Sweetheart, darling, dearest, it was funny to think that these endearments, which used to sound exceedingly sentimental in movies and books, now held great importance, simple but true verbal affirmations of how they felt for each other. They were words only the heart could hear and understand, words that could impart entire pentameter sonnets in their few, short syllables. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#falling-in-love #feelings #heart #love #love-at-first-sight

I was born into Bolivar's labyrinth, so I must believe in the hope of Rabelais' Great Perhaps. ↗

— John Green

#inspirational #life-lessons #dreams

Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#romance #soul #soul

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do. ↗

— Helen Keller

#because #cannot #everything #i #i am

It is so often true that whether a person carries with him an atmosphere of gloom and depression or one of confidence and courage depends on his individual outlook. ↗

— James Keller

#carries #confidence #courage #depends #depression

I have often heard it said that the United States is isolated and is not interested in European affairs. I assure you that this is not the case. ↗

— Frank B. Kellogg

#assure #case #european #heard #i