#nu

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots. ↗

— Thurgood Marshall

#because #bent #boots #bootstraps #down

I counted on sixty days only, but I held out for 133. I didn't go into power, but to get power I borrowed some power from the President and made him sign a number of decrees and give me enough power to create a system capable of handling crisis situations. ↗

— Aleksandr Lebed

#capable #counted #create #crisis #days

Whatever the cause, I could not meet his sunshine with cloud. If this were my last moment with him, I would not waste it in forced, unnatural distance. I loved him well - too well not to smite out of my path even Jealousy herself, when she would have obstructed a kind farewell. A cordial word from his lips, or a gentle look from his eyes, would do me good, for all the span of life that remained to me; it would be comfort in the last strait of loneliness; I would take it - I would taste the elixir, and pride should not spill the cup. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#goodbyes #hurt #lucy-snowe #villette #jealousy

For a London play, rehearsal time would be four weeks for the entire show. In films, I'd spend six weeks on the big dance numbers to get them perfect before the actual shooting. ↗

— Jessie Matthews

#before #big #dance #entire #films

Wait a minute, guys, I have always been on your side. I have always spoken for you, always tried to put on a good face for the state of Indiana. All of a sudden, some of you people think I'm a bad guy? ↗

— John Mellencamp

#bad #bad guy #been #face #good

Jesus Christ is our supreme commander, but He operates only through His word, which is unquestionably a training manual. However, He has many interpreters, and few people see the Bible as a true training manual. ↗

— Gary North

#christ #commander #few #few people #his

And I think we as a people need to stop being disingenuous about what the Constitution provides for. It does not provide for this all-encompassing power that we've seen exercised over the last several decades. It's what's gotten us into this bankrupt position. ↗

— Joe Miller

#bankrupt #being #constitution #decades #disingenuous

My husband, Nick Chiles and I wrote a number of relationship books together, and what we found was that women were thirsty to hear directly from men. ↗

— Denene Millner

#directly #found #hear #husband #i

Prohibition was introduced as a fraud; it has been nursed as a fraud. ↗

— Roger Q. Mills

#fraud #introduced #nursed #prohibition

Someday perhaps I'll have to get a grownup job... but for now I'm having too much fun being a reporter. ↗

— Andrea Mitchell

#fun #get #grownup #having #i