#under

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. ↗

— John Jay Chapman

#beneath #born #every #every man #fact

For anyone to open their heart, they need the right atmosphere, and something to prompt them. For my mother it was her trip abroad: she was in a very relaxed, understanding environment. I was very sympathetic towards her. ↗

— Jung Chang

#anyone #atmosphere #environment #heart #her

It's difficult sometimes when you have somebody who is of a different culture trying to make light of something that is maybe not quite something that they understand. ↗

— Michael Chang

#different #difficult #light #make #maybe

How do you explain certain physical qualities that somehow sell on screen? You're born with it... Certain people are just more watchable, and I was more watchable, but I don't think I understood acting or drama very well when I was a kid. ↗

— Joan Chen

#born #certain #drama #explain #how

Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody. ↗

— Florenz Ziegfeld

#comedians #customers #funny #great #had

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side. ↗

— Zig Ziglar

#clearly #husband #many #marriages #same

The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#bravado #bravery #creature #discovers #fool

They may then be willing to cast principled votes based on an educated understanding of the public interest in the face of polls suggesting that the public itself may have quite a different understanding of where its interest lies. ↗

— James L. Buckley

#cast #different #educated #face #interest

I had no words for these feelings. And then people started using the word Ms. Suddenly, there was this handle with which I could identify myself and understand why I felt so out of whack with the culture around me. ↗

— Betty Buckley

#could #culture #feelings #felt #had

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#itself #may #mistaken #persecution #piety