#sure

When I told my mother that I wanted to be an actress, she said, you can't live here and do that, and so I moved out. I was determined to prove her wrong because she was so sure that I was going to go astray. And that's the juice that kept me going. ↗

— Cicely Tyson

#astray #because #determined #go #going

There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own. ↗

— Charles Dudley Warner

#designs #exact #exact measure #had #her

Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years. ↗

— James Thurber

#anybody #between #beyond #least #months

Sure, we've had our fair share of ups and downs, but I don't know if we've had more than any other rock band... we just have a way of getting ourselves into hot water. ↗

— Carl Wilson

#band #downs #fair #fair share #getting

Part of what is wrong with the view of American imperialism is that it is antithetical to our interests. We are better off when people are governing themselves. I'm sure there is some guy that will tell you that philosophy is no different from the Roman Empire's. Well, it is fundamentally different. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#antithetical #better #better off #different #empire

With age, gone are the forevers of youth. Gone is the willingness to procrastinate, delay, to play the waiting game. Now each day is a treasure beyond compare . . . because there are so few such diadems left. ↗

— Joe L. Wheeler

#enjoying-life #life #procrastination #treasure #youth