#tru

The truth is this is a very dangerous world. ↗

— Mike Rogers

#truth #truth is #very #world

If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#deduct #future #him #preparing #serious

Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becomes, the harder they hold to it, and the worse the things they are willing to do to support it. ↗

— Mercedes Lackey

#fantasy #prejudice #religion #truth #change

'Hound Dog' took like twelve minutes. That's not a complicated piece of work. But the rhyme scheme was difficult. Also the metric structure of the music was not easy. 'Kansas City' was maybe eight minutes, if that. Writing the early blues was spontaneous. You can hear the energy in the work. ↗

— Jerry Leiber

#blues #city #complicated #difficult #dog

I chose to not wear a wire and tape people. I chose to not get immunity until - were accepted, whatever - until the independent counsel's office was comfortable with what I said was the truth. ↗

— Monica Lewinsky

#chose #comfortable #counsel #get #i

There's nothing worse than finding yourself in a situation, a very demanding piece of work, and knowing that you're not a true ally to the person who's in charge of all that. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#charge #demanding #finding #finding yourself #knowing

Who is there that ever receives a gift and tries to make bargains about it? Let us, then, return thanks for what He has bestowed on us. Who can tell whether, if we had had a larger share of ability or stronger health, we should not have possessed them to our destruction. ↗

— Alphonsus Liguori

#about #bargains #bestowed #destruction #ever

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#be true #being #esteem #esteemed #every

The truth is I don't feel too bad for my age. I actually have a better shape now than I used to. ↗

— Gary Lineker

#age #bad #better #feel #i

Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. ↗

— Rich Little

#capote #carter #dolly #dolly parton #him