#stan

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility. ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#dwell #own #path #possibility #privilege

I always loved working as an actress, but I didn't understand why I couldn't just opt out of being famous. And then I realized you can, and I think I did. And eventually, I came to understand that you can do that and also keep working. ↗

— Debra Winger

#also #always #being #being famous #came

If a lion could talk, we could not understand him. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#him #lion #talk #understand

I understand that one of the purposes of bipartisanship is to cram something difficult and necessary down the American people's gullets for which neither party has the fortitude to assume full responsibility. It's a way of turning a possible gangplank into a teeter-totter. ↗

— James Wolcott

#assume #bipartisanship #cram #difficult #down

We did not go to war in Afghanistan or in Iraq to, quote, 'impose democracy.' We went to war in both places because we saw those regimes as a threat to the United States. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#because #both #democracy #did #go

If I were a young coach today, I would be extremely careful in selecting assistants. ↗

— John Wooden

#careful #coach #extremely #i #selecting

I do not shake hands from a sanitary standpoint. ↗

— Victoria Woodhull

#i #i do #sanitary #shake #standpoint

Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#behold #cat #fish #forgotten #get

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year? ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#body #both #combination #harley #mind

People care and are willing to help me out my desperate circumstances. ↗

— Sam Worthington

#circumstances #desperate #help #me #out