#ted

Looking at America's history, ordinary people did something extraordinary. Leaders risked their lives for freedoms that we take for granted today.That's what instills confidence. That's us. We will move forward and prosper because that's who we are as Americans. ↗

— Scott Walker

#because #confidence #did #extraordinary #forward

It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them. ↗

— Alfred Russel Wallace

#adapted #been #consider #custom #fixed

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm. ↗

— Thomas J. Watson

#enthusiasm #great #ideas #man #resulted

Hamas, also elected to governmental leadership in Palestine, includes the jihadists, people who have declared war on the United States of America and its ally, Israel. ↗

— Zach Wamp

#also #america #declared #elected #governmental

Now, the United Nations is an organization that I believe was founded with good intentions. As a matter of fact, a prominent Tennessean named Cordell Hull was very involved with it. ↗

— Zach Wamp

#fact #founded #good #good intentions #hull

I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity. ↗

— Vera Wang

#book #both #creativity #define #dresses

There was always a creative impulse in me but I never felt rooted to anything. ↗

— Fred Ward

#anything #creative #felt #i #impulse

I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time. ↗

— Lalla Ward

#books #different #first #first time #i

I got pigeonholed a bit. When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted to be the kind of actress I became. ↗

— Rachel Ward

#became #bit #got #i #kind

Billy Campbell who is... I... truly one of the most talented actors today. ↗

— Sela Ward

#campbell #i #most #talented #talented actors