#were

The American people were really not 100% convinced that this idea of default was really going to occur, and I think the media, current company excepted here, did not help in that regard because they confused the American people about what default actually meant. ↗

— Bill Johnson

#actually #american #american people #because #company

The toughest part was doing it in front of the world and recognizing that you had gotten to a point where if you didn't do something you were going to die. ↗

— Star Jones

#doing #front #going #gotten #had

I feel very fortunate to have been associated with people such as Rodgers and Hammerstein. I think they were geniuses of their time. ↗

— Shirley Jones

#been #feel #fortunate #geniuses #hammerstein

For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great value set upon them, and second marriages were prohibited. ↗

— Robert Rainy

#celibacy #christian #christian life #enjoyments #fasting

It was a wonderful time to be young. The 1960s didn't end until about 1976. We all believed in Make Love, Not War. We were idealistic innocents, despite the drugs and sex. ↗

— Margot Kidder

#believed #despite #end #idealistic #innocents

We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are overloaded. ↗

— Charles Kingsley

#bible #burden #dose #handbook #keeping

To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail. ↗

— Dorthea Brande

#fail #guarantee #impossible #success #were

I was 12 when my parents told me we were moving to Lebanon. I remember thinking, 'Leba-who?' I had absolutely no concept of the place. ↗

— Greg Kinnear

#concept #had #i #i remember #lebanon

The dominant invades the entire picture, as it were. In this way I seek to individualize the color, because I have come to believe that there is a living world of each color and I express these worlds. ↗

— Yves Klein

#believe #color #come #dominant #each

People pay a million dollars to be recognized, but nobody cares about them. They cared about me because I did things other men were afraid to do. That's why my fans identified with me. ↗

— Evel Knievel

#afraid #because #cared #cares #did