#hey

Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule. ↗

— Daniel Ellsberg

#good #governments #lie #look #nothing

When I was larger, people said I was fat. Now that I've lost weight, they say I died. ↗

— Luther Vandross

#fat #i #larger #lost #now

I make appearance at local park and recreation agencies when the program starts, when they have the qualifying meets at the local levels. Then I try to go to the regional competitions, and of course I'm there in Hershey, Pa., in August for the North American final. ↗

— Rafer Johnson

#american #appearance #august #competitions #course

And we do talk a lot about my past and my impression of things and how it relates to what we're doing now. The Brady Bunch, in its heyday, was really the genesis of when TV started to become the force that it is today. ↗

— Mike Lookinland

#become #brady #bunch #doing #force

They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men. ↗

— Clare Boothe Luce

#congress #filibuster #invented #know #men

I was a bartender in New York and I overheard this girl saying she made $3000 doing a commercial. A kid at work told me, 'Hey, I know this director and he'd really like you!'. So I walked into this guy's office and was like 'I was thinking maybe I could make $3000' and he hired me for commercials, short films, like 15 jobs in a row. ↗

— Pauley Perrette

#commercial #commercials #could #director #doing

Jenn: Do you love him? Ani: Yeah, I do. Jenn: Then you can forgive him. It's not worth it to let love slip through your hands. ↗

— Cheyenne McCray

#moving-target #forgiveness

…he wanted to sleep inside her lungs and breathe her blood and be smothered. He wanted her to be a virgin and not a virgin all at once. He wanted to know her. Intimate secrets: Why poetry? Why so sad? Why that grayness in her eyes? Why so alone? Not lonely, just alone - riding her bike across campus or sitting off by herself in the cafeteria - even dancing, she danced alone - and it was the aloneness that filled him with love. He remembered telling her that one evening. How she nodded and looked away. And how, later, when he kissed her, she received the kiss without returning it, her eyes wide open, not afraid, not a virgin’s eyes, just flat and uninvolved. ↗

— Tim O'Brien

#the-things-they-carried #tim-o-brien #virgin #love

And when you do find this letter, you know what? Something extraordinary will happen. It will be like a reverse solar eclipse - the sun will start shining down in the middle of the night, imagine that! - and when I see this sunlight it will be my signal to go running out into the streets, and I'll shout over and over, "Awake! Awake! The son of mine who once was lost has now been found!" I'll pound on every door in the city, and my cry will ring true: "Awake! Everyone listen, there has been a miracle - my son who once was dead is now alive. Rejoice! All of you! Rejoice! You must! My son is coming home! ↗

— Douglas Coupland

#imagination

Don't wait for the right conditions. All you need for your growth is available to you in this moment. ↗

— Shri Radhe Maa

#radhe-maa #radhey-guru-maa #radhey-maa #spiritual-quotes #spiritual-growth