#rank

As a child I always wanted to be a singer. The music my mother played in the house moved me - Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Mahalia Jackson. It was truly spiritual. It made you understand what God was. We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life. ↗

— Mary J. Blige

#aretha #aretha franklin #child #depressed #franklin

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#arms #bear #being #certain #convinced

One nuclear war is going to be the last nuclear - the last war, frankly, if it really gets out of hand. And I just don't think we ought to be prepared to accept that sort of thing. ↗

— Lawrence Eagleburger

#be prepared #frankly #gets #going #hand

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#defy #drive #enemy #fear #him

It's easy to kick somebody when they're down. George W. Bush has dealt with more difficult issues than any president since Franklin Roosevelt. And I've told my colleagues it's time that we go stand up for the president. ↗

— John Boehner

#bush #colleagues #dealt #difficult #down

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#already #been #brain #contempt #cord

I don't want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didn't pass an economic deal in the first 100 days. We have passed the largest Recovery Act in the history of the country. ↗

— Rahm Emanuel

#country #days #deal #delano #economic

I was instructed by people in higher rank to stand there and hold this leash and look at the camera. We were doing what we were told. ↗

— Lynndie England

#doing #higher #hold #i #instructed

Women are not required in general to be named in rape cases because of the stigmas that go with being a rape complainant, and frankly, special burdens that rape complainants often face. ↗

— Susan Estrich

#being #burdens #cases #face #frankly

Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#fragrance #giving #mind #out #rank