#up

Singing is the love of my life, but I was ready to give it all up because I couldn't handle people talking about how fat I was. ↗

— Stevie Nicks

#because #fat #give #handle #how

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#corrupted #destroyed #goodness #love #power

I've always been part of comedy. One of the things about our family was that if we were reasonably funny with each other, particularly my two brothers and myself, when my father was upset with something you'd want to make sure in some way you made him laugh. Because when he didn't laugh, you were in trouble! ↗

— Leslie Nielsen

#always #because #been #brothers #comedy

The violence or the vaudeville style of comedy is a technique all by itself. You get up there, and you are a comedian, and you're doing one thing. That is, you're going to make the audience laugh. ↗

— Leslie Nielsen

#comedian #comedy #doing #get #going

The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after death." ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#comes #condition #death #earth #heart

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#be true #come #concerning #consideration #into

Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of material and supplies? ↗

— Chester W. Nimitz

#failure #likely #material #might #operation

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it. ↗

— Anais Nin

#cease #familiar #function #magic #meaning

The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle. ↗

— Anais Nin

#always #catch #dream #live #me

Because people have read those things in the newspapers, they think it is true. Ten years ago all these things I have just mentioned would have upset me. ↗

— Ruud van Nistelrooy

#because #i #just #me #mentioned