#own

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people. ↗

— George W. Bush

#given #great #help #help people #just

Lucifer looked over her shoulder. “What?” Dahlia cleared her throat. “You stupid bitch, I hate you and love you. Do not wear anything Patience gave you, it’s all ugly. I am going to write on every single blank page. Ha-ha! Love, the Faithful slut.” Lucifer scowled. “That person was mean to you.” Dahlia grinned. “No way, Faith was funny. I was the bitch, she was the slut, and Patience was the crack whore. ↗

— Darcy Town

#morningstar #faith

I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way. ↗

— George W. Bush

#american troops #find #free #history #i

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#echoes #fall #forest #hundred #oak

For me, triathlons were something that was down to me and my fitness. Now, I really enjoy the pain in the triathlon of chasing someone down. It's a bit like chasing down Nico Rosberg in the last few laps at Silverstone - it makes you feel alive. ↗

— Jenson Button

#bit #chasing #down #enjoy #feel

At first, it was hard to sit down and read the things that people were saying. A lot of people would've worked their way up to this position and would've gotten a thick skin over a few years' time. For me, though, all this happened in a few months. ↗

— Carrie Underwood

#few #first #gotten #happened #hard

Part of me relates to Perez Hilton because he's an outcast. I don't have a lot of friends who are actresses. They're catty, and they'll cut you down. I like that Perez is proud of who he is and doesn't care what anybody thinks. ↗

— Amanda Bynes

#because #care #catty #cut #down

I've grown up with kids watching me and as they're growing up, I'm growing up. ↗

— Amanda Bynes

#growing up #grown #i #kids #me

I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down. ↗

— David Byrne

#cars #commodity #down #i #i do

I'm not really interested in politics, because I think it's just too removed from my own life. If there's a war, though, or a disaster, I want to know what's happening. ↗

— Zhang Ziyi

#disaster #happening #i #i think #interested