#oura

I have big friends who won't go swimming because they're too embarrassed about it. I feel that's such a shame, because actually people should be encouraging fat people who are exercising to do it, not pointing and laughing. ↗

— Jo Brand

#actually #because #big #embarrassed #encouraging

I know what real courage is, and I understand true compassion. ↗

— Mo Yan

#courage #i #know #real #true

But, at the same time, I think that there is room for economic stimulus in terms of accelerated depreciation to encourage businesses to invest and to grow and ultimately to hire more people again. ↗

— John Breaux

#businesses #depreciation #economic #encourage #grow

I think the Iraqi people have shown extraordinary patience and courage in the last few months. They have really put a political system on the way to success, to a real democracy here. ↗

— Paul Bremer

#democracy #extraordinary #few #here #i

We are rather in the position that used to exist at the BBC, where you feel that you can pick up the phone to people who are experts in their field and they will be very favourably disposed to you and share their knowledge. ↗

— Rory Bremner

#disposed #exist #experts #favourably #feel

Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two. ↗

— Brenda Ueland

#down #else #everybody #everybody else #i

Unlike a lot of actors, my father encouraged all his kids to go into show business. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#encouraged #father #go #his #into

If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone. ↗

— Anne Bronte

#attempt #clear #firmly #go #hand

The liberal feminist movement never imagined that women would take seriously the encouragement to become our own heroes and claim life for ourselves, on our terms, no matter who we are. Pro-choice and pro-life, Christian and not, poor and rich, black, white, gay and straight. It is a dream we all hold dear, and it's called the Tea Party. ↗

— Tammy Bruce

#black #called #christian #claim #dear

The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life. ↗

— Philip Zimbardo

#class #dynamics #encouraged #exercises #experiment