#miss

Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#duty #easily #god #great #great nation

Well, more than me saying to the rest of the country music industry there is not enough traditional country music - that is not necessarily the statement in truth. I think more so that I, me, missed it more than anything else. ↗

— Vince Gill

#country #country music #else #enough #i

What we are missing over here is the life of soccer. ↗

— Thomas Dooley

#life #missing #over #soccer

I never thought I'd see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so, than black folks was during the civil rights movement when we was in Mississippi. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#civil #civil rights #civil rights movement #day #during

I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance to experience it at school I'd never have experienced it. But I loved English, and I was very lucky in that I had inspirational English teachers, Miss Scriven and Mr. Walker, and they liked us to learn poems by heart, which I found I loved doing. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#doing #english #experience #experienced #found

And that's the mission of The Innocence Project in New York, is to exonerate people who have been wrongfully convicted, and also work from a policy angle with Congress and state legislatures to prevent future wrongful convictions. ↗

— John Grisham

#angle #been #congress #convicted #convictions

The only thing that I miss lately in all music is somebody that will put out a melody that you can whistle. It doesn't seem like there's anything happening like that. ↗

— Merle Haggard

#happening #i #lately #like #melody

At home in Paris I take a milk bath two times a week, but here on the road it is more difficult. I miss them. ↗

— Anna Held

#difficult #here #home #i #milk

There was only one catch and that was Catch-22. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to. ↗

— Joseph Heller

#catch-22 #crazy #flew #fly #had

The magic was in the Marshall Plan itself. It provided an opportunity for appealing and constructive work. In a sense, the mission chiefs were given the opportunity to help act as architects for the new Europe that was envisioned. ↗

— Paul Hoffman

#appealing #architects #chiefs #constructive #envisioned