#tru

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous. ↗

— Shana Alexander

#makes #nervous #people #sad #sad truth

My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#joke #joking #tell #truth #way

We are succeeding in Iraq. It's a tough struggle with setbacks, but we are succeeding. ↗

— Iyad Allawi

#setbacks #struggle #succeeding #tough

A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason. ↗

— Harold S. Geneen

#any #approach #genuine #him #his

The world expected girls to pluck and primp and put on heels. Meanwhile, boys dressed in rumpled T-shirts and baggy pants and misplace their combs, and yet you were suppose to fall at their feet? Unacceptable. ↗

— Libba Bray

#men #true #world #beauty

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now? ↗

— James Allen

#four #me #now #questions #success

Yes, of course that's true but you know, the irony of all that is that before the accident, I'd pretty much lost interest in playing drums. ↗

— Rick Allen

#before #course #drums #i #interest

Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s. ↗

— Peter Lewis Allen

#america #any #before #disease #early

Empowering women means trusting them. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#means #them #trusting #women

My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#grief #happy #moments #struggle #writing