#things

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#bestowed #brought #cannot #deserved #few

I had surgery to repair the ACL in February 2010 and was back in the gym by June, but rushed things too quickly and ended up re-tearing my MCL in September. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#ended #february #gym #had #i

The body is an amazing machine... If you eat the right things your body will perform incredibly well! ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#body #eat #incredibly #machine #perform

Unless things change radically, President Bush will be the first President since Herbert Hoover to have presided over a net loss of jobs during his administration. ↗

— Tim Johnson

#be the first #bush #change #during #first

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#far #invisible #musician #painter #poet

I've always had an inquisitive mind about everything from flowers to television sets to motor cars. Always pulled them apart - couldn't put 'em back, but always extremely interested in how things work. ↗

— Craig Johnston

#about #always #apart #back #cars

After I got this job at the syndicate, I started sending them money so they could go on trips and do the things they could never afford to do. All the while, I never knew that my mother was socking money away. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

#after #away #could #go #got

I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn't have those things in mine. ↗

— Angelina Jolie

#been #before #being #being myself #characters

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon. ↗

— Angelina Jolie

#animal #being #cage #caged #dead

I grew up as this very carefree, happy kid then things turned darker for me. Maybe it was because I saw that the world wasn't as happy a place as I had hoped it would be for me. ↗

— Angelina Jolie

#carefree #darker #grew #had #happy