#u

And in singing, what my voice lacked in quality it made up for in volume. ↗

— Hedda Hopper

#made #quality #singing #up #voice

Being doped is a pleasure you pay for. There was always opium there for the people -- in the end it tainted their whole faith. If the Church had not always stood so watchfully behind the ruling powers, there would not have been such attacks against everything it stood for -- although of course it may have been competing with them for the first place among the rulers, as in the Middle Ages. Whenever it was a question of keeping the serfs, and then the paid slaves down, the dope-dealers came unfailingly to the help of the oppressors. ↗

— Ernst Bloch

#christianity #fundementalism #marx #religion #age

Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it. ↗

— Eknath Easwaran

#building #day #every #every day #just

I want to see where I measure up against everyone in the world and everyone who has ever competed in the sport, and there's that innate sense of wanting to challenge myself. I'm competitive in all aspects. ↗

— Ashton Eaton

#aspects #challenge #competed #competitive #ever

There's never going to be a decathlon that you're going to have 10 events that your satisfied with. You're always, always going to be dissatisfied in something, and that always draws you back to try to retry that the next time you do a decathlon. It's like you go for the perfect 10. ↗

— Ashton Eaton

#back #decathlon #dissatisfied #draws #events

A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement. ↗

— Abba Eban

#elegance #flexibility #glued #ground #his

Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss. ↗

— Abba Eban

#governments #impulsive #into #lest #me

You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way. ↗

— Abba Eban

#anything #getting #someone #way #without

I know I lost my temper, but I tried to be human along the way. ↗

— Bernard Ebbers

#human #i #i tried #know #lost

I put those people in place. I trusted them. I had no idea they would do anything like this. ↗

— Bernard Ebbers

#had #i #idea #like #no idea