#aged

I am encouraged by the news today that United States special operations personnel found, identified and killed the terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the operational commander of the al-Qaeda led insurgency in Iraq. Al-Zarqawi was the public face of the insurgency. ↗

— Mike Fitzpatrick

#al-qaeda #am #commander #encouraged #face

I was encouraged by my mother and, to a lesser extent, by my father. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

#extent #father #i #lesser #lesser extent

When I started to sing, my mother would have me engaged to perform at the Women's Christian Temperance Union national or annual meetings. I would hate doing this because I wanted to play baseball or go off skiing. ↗

— Maureen Forrester

#baseball #because #christian #doing #engaged

The main stem was then in most cases twisted in a zigzag form, which process checked the flow of the sap, and at the same time encouraged the production of side branches at those parts of the stem where they were most desired. ↗

— Robert Fortune

#cases #checked #desired #encouraged #flow

I sometimes wonder if the tragedies my family has suffered are a kind of karmic price for all the fame and fortune the Bee Gees have had. ↗

— Robin Gibb

#bee gees #fame #family #fortune #gees

The human race is unimportant. It is the self that must not be betrayed." "I suppose one could say that Hitler didn't betray his self." "You are right. He did not. But millions of Germans did betray their selves. That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good. ↗

— John Fowles

#hitler #tragedy #war #courage

No day-to-day mishaps or indignities can really compromise your sense of self after you've survived a deep tragedy. ↗

— Kelsey Grammer

#compromise #day-to-day #deep #mishaps #really

We've managed to keep a spirit of fun, I guess, of urban satire and finding new and odd interesting angles to the ways of life to put on the stage. ↗

— Adolph Green

#finding #fun #guess #i #interesting

If you don't pay attention and if your imagination isn't pretty much engaged, you're going to miss things and you're going to miss opportunities for it to be as compelling and as creepy as it can be. ↗

— Bruce Greenwood

#compelling #creepy #engaged #going #imagination

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#man #never #quite #tragedy