#yea

This I would like to be- braver and bolder, Just a bit wiser because I am older, Just a bit kinder to those I may meet, Just a bit manlier taking defeat; This for the New Year my wish and my plea- Lord, make a regular man out of me. This I would like to be- just a bit finer, More of a smiler and less of a whiner, Just a bit quicker to stretch out my hand Helping another who's struggling to stand, This is my prayer for the New Year to be, Lord, make a regular man out of me. This I would like to be- just a bit fairer, Just a bit better, and just a bit squarer, Not quite so ready to censure and blame, Quicker to help every man in the game, Not quite so eager men's failings to see, Lord, make a regular man out of me. This I would like to be- just a bit truer, Less of the wisher and more of the doer, Broader and bigger, more willing to give, Living and helping my neighbor to live! This for the New Year my prayer and my plea- Lord, make a regular man out of me. ↗

— Edgar A. Guest

#inspirational #new-years #prayer #inspirational

Well, you know, if you do 200 shows a year, they're not all going to be like Castle Donnington. ↗

— Sebastian Bach

#going #know #like #shows #well

I love that you get cold when it's 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you're looking at me like I'm nuts. I love that after I spend the day with you, I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. And I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night. And it's not because I'm lonely, and it's not because it's New Year's Eve. I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. ↗

— Nora Ephron

#declarations-of-love #foibles #future #harry-burns #in-love

I skated in ice shows all over Europe and South Africa for 20 years. I love to ice skate. ↗

— Kenny Baker

#europe #i #i love #ice #love

I started being a comedy fan when I was, I'm going to guess, like 5 or 6 years old. ↗

— Demetri Martin

#comedy #fan #going #guess #i

Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply. ↗

— Zane Grey

#grows #love #more #multiply #poignant

I was a lawyer for 10 years, and several of my clients had the misfortune, through no fault of my own, of going to prison. I visited them occasionally. ↗

— John Grisham

#fault #going #had #i #lawyer

After you married, Crispin, she said, my heart was broken. I will not deny it. But I did not slip into a sort of suspended life that would be forever gray and meaningless if you did not somehow come back to me. I put back the pieces of my heart and kept on living. I am not the woman I was when I was in love with you and expecting to marry you. I am not the woman I was when I heard that you were married. I am the woman I have become in the five years since then, and she is a totally different person. I like her. I wish to continue living her life. ↗

— Mary Balogh

#love #pices #years #life

I ask you to stand by my side in the next five years. We shall live a good life in a Romania of all Romanians. ↗

— Traian Basescu

#five #good #good life #i #life

A reporter discovers, in the course of many years of interviewing celebrities, that most actors are more attractive behind a spotlight than over a spot of tea. ↗

— Phyllis Battelle

#behind #celebrities #course #discovers #interviewing