#sura

The irony is that it was tougher to rent a car from Cerberus when it owned Alamo than to buy a semi-automatic. To rent a car, one had to provide ID, a drivers' license, and get insurance coverage. To buy a gun? Cash and carry, from the back of a station wagon at a gun show. No concerns about downstream liability or risk. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#back #buy #car #carry #cash

People in Medicaid ought to have access to the same insurance as the rest of the population. If they are segregated, it will be a poor plan for poor people. ↗

— John Goodman

#insurance #medicaid #ought #people #plan

If it’s dangerous, then you go first. If it’s pleasurable, then I’ll be brave and lead the charge.
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— Jarod Kintz

#bravery #danger #dangerous #leadership #pleasurable

One of my rules is never to look sideways at what other people are doing but instead, do what I feel is right. ↗

— Annie Bryant

#children-s-books #children-s-literature #humanity #life-advice #self-assurance

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant. ↗

— John Locke

#assurance #built #entertaining #greater #love

If God is for us, who can be against us? ↗

— Anonymous

#christianity #reassurance #religion #religion

I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#defiance #empowerment #independence #individuality #self-assurance

She wore her sexuality with an older woman's ease, and not like an awkward purse, never knowing how to hold it, where to hang it, or when to just put it down. ↗

— Zadie Smith

#sex-appeal #women #women

Nothing can dim the light which shines from within. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#self-assurance #strength

Commandment #1: Believe in yourself. Commandment #2: Get over yourself. ↗

— Kristan Higgins

#self-assurance #self-knowledge #self-knowledge