#tribute

When you get to the end of your rope. Tie a knot and hang on. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#misattributed #perseverance #sanity #perseverance

Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#characteristics #detection #detectives #facts #obviousness

A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#maturity

Photons have mass? I didn’t even know they were Catholic. ↗

— Woody Allen

#humor #physics #religion #humor

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are ↗

— Kurt Cobain

#inspirational #misattributed #self-acceptance #inspirational

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#achievement #inspirational #misattributed #modesty #recognition

Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future. ↗

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

#inspirational #life #present #unsourced #inspirational

I mean those people who are interested in good government will certainly contribute in order to make certain there's some counter-balance to those whose interests in good government is less. ↗

— Stephen Breyer

#certainly #contribute #good #good government #government

Between now and then and I just felt it was ready and it was a long enough period gone by. I obviously didn't want to hurt anybody, you know. It was done out of a genuine memorial or tribute whatever you want to call it. ↗

— Jack Bruce

#between #call #done #enough #felt

An actress who has the gift of swaying the emotions of an audience, of compelling tribute of tears, or of moving the public to joyous merriment, cannot always be satisfied to set aside her whole career, in the work that she loves, simply because she is married. ↗

— Billie Burke

#always #aside #audience #because #cannot