#thin

If I cry, it's about the personal loss of a friend or something like that. But when it comes to politics - no, I don't cry. ↗

— Nancy Pelosi

#comes #cry #friend #i #like

There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls. ↗

— Howard Thurman

#days #else #ends #ever #every

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history. ↗

— Octavio Paz

#also #contrary #deprivation #expression #feeling

Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man. ↗

— Thomas Love Peacock

#exclusively #man #more #nothing #obvious

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

#any #anything #attitude #because #before

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

#about #find #half #haven #obstacles

We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

#heard #i #i think #important #inclined

If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

#done #everything #get #never #off

I always look at films as real stories with real people in real situations. That's why I struggle with the whole notion of calling someone the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy,' because I think we all have potential to do good things and all have the potential to do bad things. ↗

— Guy Pearce

#bad #bad guy #because #calling #films

Doing that hunt scene was really quite demanding. I actually broke a rib during that scene. And then all the scenes after that became quite challenging, just breathing and laughing. ↗

— Guy Pearce

#after #became #breathing #broke #challenging