#ned

How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with this fear. ↗

— Shirin Ebadi

#defy #fear #how #human #hunger

The transfer is a monumental occasion as the Iraqi people take control of their government and their future and forge ahead with creating a society governed by the tenets of life, liberty and freedom. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

#control #creating #forge #freedom #future

It'll work, if God, wind, leads, ice, snow, and all the hells of this damned frozen land are willing. ↗

— Matthew Henson

#frozen #god #hells #ice #land

What I learned from that loss, and also another loss that I'm going to talk about later, was that when you're there, it's not good enough to be there, when you're there, you better walk away with that ring. ↗

— Don Shula

#also #another #away #better #enough

Kennedy did not have to run the risk of having his ideas and his words shortened and adulterated by a correspondent. This was the television era, not only in campaigning, but in holding the presidency. ↗

— Hugh Sidey

#campaigning #correspondent #did #era #having

I grew up in a neighborhood in Baltimore that was like a war zone, so I never learned to trust that there were people who could help me. ↗

— Jada Pinkett Smith

#could #grew #help #i #learned

Every man who has a calling to minister to the inhabitants of the world was ordained to that very purpose in the Grand Council of heaven before this world was. I suppose I was ordained to this very office in that Grand Council. ↗

— Joseph Smith, Jr.

#calling #council #every #every man #grand

From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. ↗

— Charles Sumner

#afflicted #been #beginning #compromise #country

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition. ↗

— Martha Washington

#am #cheerful #circumstance #determined #disposition

Well, we've made some changes on this tour. We're no longer sleeping in the parking lots and swimming in the fountains. We've been staying in hotels most of the way, though I will say some hotels have declined to take us because we're just having too much fun. ↗

— Bill Walton

#been #changes #declined #fountains #fun