Private Donut Quotes & Sayings

Our politics at its best involves us recognizing ourselves in each other. And our politics at its worst are when we see immigrants or women or blacks or gays or Mexicans as somehow separate, apart from us. — Barack Obama

The hard decisions," Ridgway added, "are not the ones you make in the heat of battle. Far harder to make are those involved in speaking your mind about some hare-brained scheme, which proposes to commit troops to action under conditions where failure is almost certain, and the only results will be the needless sacrifice of priceless lives. — Jean Edward Smith

He remembered Bertolt Brecht: I would also like to be wise. In the old books it says what wisdom is: To shun the strife of the world and to live out Your brief time without fear All this I cannot do. — Madeleine Thien

when you is precious to God, you is important to Satan. Watch your backside, somethin' is gettin' ready to happen — Denver Moore

Nothing affects my acting. Acting is something I do with my soul so it embodies a lot of things. For me, I don't know about anyone else, acting is spiritual, so if I do not embody a character or a story or a script, it's going to be extremely difficult for me to be convincing and I don't like that because I am somewhat of a perfectionist — Genevieve Nnaji

He has Van Gogh's ear for music. — Billy Wilder

There are two options: adapt or die. — Andy Grove

You seldom hear any young artists in country music. — Conway Twitty

There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house. — Edward Hopper

The inevitable slip of time weighted on a man's soul. — Heather Webb

In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark. — Nicholson Baker

Visualize a wagon wheel as a complete team. A leader might be the hub of the wheel at the center. Now suppose the spokes are the connecting relationships the leader is building with people on the outer rim of the wheel. If the hub is removed, then the entire wheel collapses. In a situation like that, if a team loses the leader, the entire team collapses. — Mike Krzyzewski

Injuries are part of the game, but sometimes we can avoid them by just practicing our techniques. — Troy Vincent

But one of them has to do with the sense of, the sense of capturing, capturing what the world feels like to us, in the sort of way that I think that a reader can tell Another sensibility like mine exists. — David Lipsky