#others

My father was a police officer before he retired. One of my brothers is also a police officer, and I think they kind of expected I would do something along those lines, like become a fireman or something. ↗

— Ryan Reynolds

#also #become #before #brothers #expected

What's sad is that there is an addictive quality to that, to believing your own hype; to allowing yourself to become validated by others and no longer by yourself. That's the danger of celebrity. ↗

— Giovanni Ribisi

#allowing #become #believing #celebrity #danger

It is tragic that many in America think of us - Christians - as being people who hate others. ↗

— Anne Rice

#being #christians #hate #many #others

Similarly, only people as misanthropic as myself can be counted on not to have to lie to others, since we have the unique luxury of not caring what sort of opinions others formulate about us. ↗

— Boyd Rice

#caring #counted #formulate #lie #luxury

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#fair #not fair #others #willing #you

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#ambition #appetite #assert #continue #earn

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character! ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#care #character #i #i care #i do

Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others. ↗

— Elihu Root

#among #conception #constitutional #constitutional government #duties

What if the invasion forces will not leave our lands? What if the U.S. forces and others stay in our beloved lands? What if their companies and embassy headquarters will continue to exist with the American flags hoisted on them? Will you be silent? Will you overlook this? ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#beloved #companies #continue #embassy #exist

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#brothers #clown #columbus #does #fact