#up

First of all it must be known who the God of heaven is, since upon that all the other things depend. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

#first #first of all #god #heaven #known

Winning the Outstanding Contribution award is great, because you know you have won in advance. Previously, I have been really nervous during the ceremony because you have no idea if you are going to get called up on stage. This time I could relax and enjoy myself. ↗

— Tom Jones

#award #because #been #called #ceremony

I'm not a political person. When I start to get into it, it just upsets me. I feel so powerless when it comes to politics. So I've just decided to be non-political and very, very pro-soldier. ↗

— Channing Tatum

#decided #feel #get #i #i feel

I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop. ↗

— Clarence Budington Kelland

#i #morning #screams #stop #then

Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it. ↗

— Bill Keller

#elite #media #nice #populist #ring

Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity. ↗

— James Keller

#ago #bear #carved #cell #condemned

You try to stay within the rules for the sake of the game, but you can always turn up the intensity. ↗

— Lawrence Taylor

#game #intensity #rules #sake #stay

There was no imminent threat. This was made up in Texas, announced in January to the Republican leadership that war was going to take place and was going to be good politically. This whole thing was a fraud. ↗

— Edward Kennedy

#fraud #going #good #imminent #imminent threat

I feel it's the conscious mind that messes things up. The conscious mind is constantly telling you, this might happen or that might happen, even before it has happened. Your conscious mind tells you the next ball might be a out-swinger, but when it's coming at you you realize it's an in-swinger... so literally, you've played two balls. ↗

— Sachin Tendulkar

#balls #before #coming #conscious #conscious mind

I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true. ↗

— Debi Thomas

#come #half #i #impossible #know