#del

A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing. ↗

— Mary Schmich

#any #attributed #believe #columns #day

A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#anything #comes #delight #enjoy #enjoyed

It's not about how loud you turn the amp up. That's not what makes it sound big. What makes it sound big is fooling around with different delays and reverb settings. ↗

— Brian Setzer

#amp #around #big #delays #different

The government is fully capable of delivering services. Even complex services. ↗

— Donna Shalala

#complex #delivering #even #fully #government

Last week, I went to Philadelphia, but it was closed. ↗

— W. C. Fields

#i #last #philadelphia #week #went

Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a book so when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must turn one more page. ↗

— Sidney Sheldon

#chapter #close #deliberately #end #get

It is imperative for the health and safety of millions of workers that we ensure that breathing systems needed for protection are widely available, convenient and economical. ↗

— Bill Shuster

#breathing #convenient #economical #ensure #health

Not only that, but when I first met Joe, to my intense delight, he showed me that he was a collector. He was collecting some of the early Tarzan pages by Hal Foster, and, later, early Flash Gordons; and I found that we were both absolutely interested in the same type of thing. ↗

— Joe Shuster

#both #collecting #collector #delight #early

This may be a dream, but I'll say it anyway: I was supposed to be married last year, and I bought a gown. When I meet Nelson Mandela, I shall put on this gown and have the train of it removed and put aside, and kiss the ground that he walks on and then kiss his feet. ↗

— Nina Simone

#aside #bought #dream #feet #gown

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#creates #delivers #eternity #nature #never