Jill Scott Quotes

At my aunt's funeral, I promised myself that I wouldn't be bound by the belief that I'm supposed to stay in anything - whether it's a relationship, a job, a house, or a circumstance - if it makes me miserable. She gave me the courage to find my own happiness.

Jill Scott

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HappinessRelationshipCourageMyself

A zombie amusement park sounds like fun, but the health code violations alone are enough to turn your stomach.

Jim C. Hines

AloneHealthFunEnoughTurnPark

The great pleasure that comes from reading poets such as Mark Doty and Marianne Moore is the realisation that the essential virtues - compassion, wonder, humility, respect for the mysterious - are far from conventionally heroic.

John Burnside

RespectGreatCompassionHumility

The walls of our upstairs hallway testify that we once had photogenic children. There are rows of framed pictures that show them playing baseball, basketball, holding a toad, and smiling in the sunlight at their eager parents. Everything is orderly and bright.

John Dickerson

ChildrenWallsBaseballParents

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

Robert Motherwell

LifeArtImportantPoorWithout

Some golfers, we are told, enjoy the landscape; but properly, the landscape shrivels and compresses into the grim, surrealistically vivid patch of grass directly under the golfer's eyes as he morosely walks toward where he thinks his ball might be.

John Updike

EyesEnjoyLandscapeGrassBallHe

I do have siblings, but I don't have any brothers.

Sonequa Martin-Green

BrothersAny

'Answer The Call' - we're trying to support the real heroes of our world, the people who protect us and afford us freedom and give us that peace of mind.

Roman Reigns

FreedomPeaceSupportPeopleMind

We will welcome them with bullets and shoes.

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

ShoesWelcomeWillBulletsThem

Never fight with or disrespect your partner in front of other people.

Divyanka Tripathi

FightPeoplePartnerDisrespectYour

I don't really see myself getting a Twitter account. Nothing against it. I get it. I especially get it for businesses.

Derek Jeter

MyselfNothingSeeAgainstGet

In the many roles I have played in my acting career as military figures, I have simply drawn upon the acts of courage, large and small, I have seen in the men and women with whom I served, and the countless others I met or have come to know through the years.

Chuck Norris

WomenCourageMenSmallActingKnow

Nobody could tell us or really had a very good idea, if there were a massive release of radiation, what kind of medical treatment people were going to need and this or that, or, indeed, whether there would be medical personnel around.

William Scranton

GoodMedicalPeopleNobodyKind

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