#tru

I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I'm married to now - and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic. ↗

— Victoria Jackson

#fell #got #gymnastics #i #life

I've had a lot of struggles and I would be in a lot of trouble, I think, if I wasn't a Christian. ↗

— Victoria Jackson

#had #i #i think #lot #struggles

In their effort to divorce language and experience, deconstructionist critics remind me of middle-class parents who do not allow their children to play in the street. ↗

— Charles Simic

#deconstruction #language #poetry #experience

I truly don't know why it was ended, though. It was suddenly decided that that would be it. They never said particularly why, because they were cut off in their prime. ↗

— Derek Jacobi

#cut #decided #ended #i #know

I'm trying to change the root of funk, trying to make it more progressive, more melodic and more lyrically structured. ↗

— Rick James

#funk #i #lyrically #make #melodic

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be. ↗

— William James

#clear #fully #grasp #import #never

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true. ↗

— William James

#beforehand #come #enough #faith #hour

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths. ↗

— William James

#enemy #greatest #may #our #rest

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself. ↗

— Anna Jameson

#aspire #changing #earnestly #frame #itself

If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in their capacity to neutralize or transform this particular mode of exploitation that one can best test these various forms of resistance to the West. ↗

— Fredric Jameson

#best #capacity #capitalism #destructive #exploitation