#de

If they respect the craft and what we're doing and they bring something to the table and they work hard, I don't care what you do as your side job or as your day job. ↗

— Anthony Anderson

#care #craft #day #doing #hard

Delivering the speech was a surreal experience. The delegates sat silent, almost frozen in place. It was like speaking to a wax museum. ↗

— George W. Bush

#george-w-bush #experience

You have very accurately described the difficulty of presenting my books on film: many of my characters are alone most of the time, and when they do talk, what they say is mostly lies. That can make for a pretty confusing film. ↗

— Thomas Perry

#alone #books #characters #confusing #described

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#cannot #confidence #courage #each #experience

When a bull is being lead to the slaughter, it still hopes to break loose and trample its butchers. Other bulls have not been able to pass on the knowledge that this never happens and that from the slaughterhouse there is no way back to the herd. But in human society there is a continuous exchange of experience. I have never heard of a man who broke away and fled while being led to his execution. It is even thought to be a special form of courage if a man about to be executed refuses to be blindfolded and dies with his eyes open. But I would rather have the bull with his blind rage, the stubborn beast who doesn't weigh his chances of survival with the prudent dull-wittedness of man, and doesn't know the despicable feeling of despair. ↗

— Nadezhda Mandelstam

#despair #hope #anger

Although my belief in the world returned to me, I have never since entirely freed myself of the impression that this life is a segment of existence which is enacted in a three-dimensional boxlike universe especially set up for it. ↗

— C.G. Jung

#death

You think I'm a fool?" demanded Harry. "No, I think you're like James," said Lupin, "who would have regarded it as the height of dishonor to mistrust his friends. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#james-potter #loyalty #trust #death

Often people that say they “don’t care” actually do. The moment they call your house, send you an email, talk to your family or discuss you with their friends and family is when they give themselves away. You can either be saddened or flattered that you effected someone so much. The perspective is yours to determine. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#frustration #gossip #hidden-agendas #insecurity #not-caring

I didn't want this man touching me in those places. It wasn't that he was being inappropriate, it was just more that he obviously didn't view me as a person, let alone a scared person with actual feelings. He just saw me as yet another scientific specimen there for his own experimenting. I squeezed my eyes shut, cringing the entire time. ↗

— Jessica Verdi

#chronic-illness #dehumanization #doctors #hiv #experience

Hold still, Meg, you’re dripping blood on my car seats.” I reached behind the passenger seat of Tennyson’s car looking for the white sheet she’d thrown in for mopping up bodily fluids. Quinn, sitting in the back seat, read my mind and handed it to me. “Thank you.” “No problem.” He leaned forward, pulling a corner of the sheet up to wipe off a small stream of blood on my neck. “You okay? ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#distracted-driving #glass-girl #henry-whitmire #high-school #laura-anderson-kurk