#rise

Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#because #competition #democracy #distrust #energetic

When I was a child I devoured every book I could get my hands on. I loved losing myself in colourful and dramatic stories - and my absolute favourite was 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.' Everything about it electrified me, and when I re-read Roald Dahl's books as an adult it surprised me. ↗

— David Walliams

#absolute #adult #book #books #charlie

A lot of my work is a matter of reacting to surprises in life. ↗

— Alexander Wang

#lot #matter #reacting #surprises #work

English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

#education #english #far #goes #half-century

What surprises me most about God is that the creator of the universe should want a relationship with me. ↗

— Rick Warren

#creator #god #me #most #relationship

What gives me the most hope every day is God's grace; knowing that his grace is going to give me the strength for whatever I face, knowing that nothing is a surprise to God. ↗

— Rick Warren

#every #every day #face #give #give me

I do like to shock and surprise people. When it's all in good fun, of course. ↗

— Ruth Warrick

#course #fun #good #i #i do

Saturday night is your big night. Everybody used to fry up fish and have one hell of a time. Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich. And be glad of it. And they really liked the low-down blues. ↗

— Muddy Waters

#big night #blues #cents #everybody #find

And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date, you don't know where you are going and you can't see and then you put your hand out and there is a tiger. Amazing. ↗

— Emily Watson

#date #going #hand #i #know

Now, honestly, every movie set that I go on, I walk onto set with the confidence that there is nothing that they can throw at me that's gonna surprise me. ↗

— Emily Watson

#every #go #gonna #honestly #i