The real difference between telling what happened and telling a story about what happened is that instead of being a victim of our past, we become master of it. ~Donald Davis
#quotes #donald-davis #reality #stories

You're going to hear a lot from President Obama and yes, from Joe Biden, you're hearing a little bit about Medicare these days. What they will not tell you is they turned Medicare into a piggybank to fund "Obamacare." They took $716 billion dollars to pay for the "Obamacare" program. ~Paul Ryan
#quotes #paul-ryan #barack-obama #politics

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity. ~Max Beerbohm
#quotes #max-beerbohm #popularity #modesty #conceit

A journey of a thousand miles always begins with one step. ~Ancient Egyptian Proverb
#proverbs #ancient-egyptian-proverbs #journey

That's what acting is; it's about having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives. ~Kerry Washington
#quotes #kerry-washington #acting

Be brothers, and keep between you the accounts of merchants. ~Arabic Proverb
#proverbs #arabic-proverbs #siblings

Every woman should eat for the long run so she can manage the short stops of crisis. ~Jane Fonda
#quotes #jane-fonda #sports #running #women

You must remember the value that you add to others and not just what others have added to you. That's how we build self-worth, which, in my opinion, is just as important as net worth. ~Suze Orman
#quotes #suze-orman #self #helping

There is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference there is, is very important. ~William James
#quotes #william-james #personality

In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience. ~William Prescott
#quotes #william-prescott #power #patience

I have a folder of scraps and pieces of paper with stuff, ideas for songs from the last 25 years; just little things, maybe early songs that I finished, but didn't think they were good enough. ~Lucinda Williams
#quotes #lucinda-williams #past #music

In running, it doesn't matter how fast or slow you are relative to anyone else. You set your own pace and you measure your own progress. You can't lose this race because you're not running against anyone else. You're only running against yourself, and as long as you are running, you are winning. ~Amby Burfoot
#quotes #amby-burfoot #sports #marathon

When we were all kids, there was one particular trailer that I think we can all remember. That was the trailer for "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." There was an amazing teaser trailer with all this weird kind of documentary footage. We were like, "What was that! I've got to see that! What the hell was that?" ~Matt Reeves
#quotes #matt-reeves #childhood

With those people, I'm very far apart, because I believe that government access to communications and stored records is valuable when done under tightly controlled conditions which protect legitimate privacy interests. ~Dorothy Denning
#quotes #dorothy-denning #government #privacy

The go-between wears out a thousand sandals. ~Japanese Proverb
#proverbs #japanese-proverbs

A hedge between keeps friendship green. ~French Proverb
#proverbs #french-proverbs #friendship

I started mountain-bike riding two years ago, which is much better than riding a stationary bike in the gym. Mountain biking is a total body workout. ~Samantha Stosur
#quotes #samantha-stosur #workout #bikes

But we'd never really seen eye to eye. Mostly 'cause he was much taller than I was. ~Darynda Jones
#quotes #darynda-jones

We have been playing to a 70-30 black to white audience. And we are just doing what should come next, trying to attract a larger house, trying to reach an audience that's half black and white. ~Valerie Simpson
#quotes #valerie-simpson #entertainment #black

The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The next best time is now. ~Chinese Proverb
#proverbs #chinese-proverbs #trees

When you open the door which you shut in order to pray to God, the first person you meet as you go out is your neighbour whom you shall love. Wonderful! ~Soren Kierkegaard
#quotes #soren-kierkegaard #god #neighbours

The corporation is an out-of-control Frankenstein. ~Jerry Brown
#quotes #jerry-brown #frankenstein

We are dealing in a day and time when the courts are defining sin different than the church. ~Johnny Hunt
#quotes #johnny-hunt #christianity

A handful of patience is worth a bushel of brains. ~Hobart Brown
#quotes #hobart-brown #patience

The sermon is now the true poppy of literature. ~David Swing
#quotes #david-swing #literature