#so

I went through some real challenges growing up. I joined the Army two weeks out of high school when I was 17, and never looked back. ↗

— Geoff Davis

#back #challenges #growing #growing up #high

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful. ↗

— Charles Simmons

#attention #delightful #duty #easy #energy

A song is the most intangible thing in the world. ↗

— Jimmie Davis

#most #song #thing #world

I always step on the plane with my right foot and touch the outside of the plane with my left hand. Sometimes you know there's someone standing there to welcome you to the plane and I have to kind of get them to move a little bit so I can put my hand on the outside of the plane. It's not a natural thing to be up in the sky in a little metal tube. ↗

— Hope Davis

#bit #foot #get #hand #i

It's too easy to sum up a person's character in one negative instant, and it doesn't put anything good out into the world. ↗

— Hope Davis

#character #easy #good #instant #into

Those who are without compassion cannot see what is seen with the eyes of compassion. ↗

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

#religion #religion

Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth! ↗

— Jonathan Davis

#just #looking #people #see #some

Judy Garland's father was gay. That seems to be the consensus. They left Minnesota and went to California because he got caught with some boy backstage. ↗

— Judy Davis

#because #boy #california #caught #consensus

Interpreter of Maladies is the title of one of the stories in the book. And the phrase itself was something I thought of before I even wrote that story. ↗

— Jhumoa Lahiri

#book #even #i #interpreter #itself

My mother is probably the wisest person I've ever known. She's not schooled, she's not well read. But she has a philosophy of life that makes well-read people seem like morons. ↗

— Gene Simmons

#i #known #life #like #makes