#cult

I get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it's pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I'm going to be able to deliver. ↗

— Adele

#behind #believe #brain #deliver #difficult

People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#does #economy #mean #only #our

To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#equation #expense #liberty #other #people

If you look at my life, generally, I've been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#conquered #difficult #generally #i #life

I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today. ↗

— Penelope Keith

#am #believer #culture #future #future generations

It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

#designate #difficult #form #more #name

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence. ↗

— B. R. Ambedkar

#cultivation #existence #human #human existence #mind

The difficulties of conducting espionage against the Soviet Union in the Soviet Union were such that historically the Agency had backed away from the task. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#agency #away #backed #conducting #difficulties

Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate. ↗

— Barbara de Angelis

#been #crazy #difficult #drive #intimate

In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe. ↗

— Tadao Ando

#culture #europe #japan #less #old