E. S. Carter Quotes

You just have to do what suits you, and it doesn't matter if you don't look like everybody else. Be you. That's our gift and we've got to celebrate that.

If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can't accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.

I don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened.

Tell me Cameron Ann Morgan, what do you want to be when you grow up?... Alive

Nerves are natural, it means you're ready to face a challenge and perform.

Every advance in this half-century-Social Security, civil rights, Medicare, aid to education, one after another-came with the support and leadership of American Labor.

Wear what you feel comfortable with. People say nasty things about what I wear in the street. I'm always in worst dressed lists, but you just have to dress for yourself and ­nobody else.

You should have had the decency to die when you needed to." “Sorry,” I admitted. “I’ve been going through a bit of a rebellious streak. I swear it’s almost over.

For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.

What a joy it is to dance and sing!

She'd absolutely adored the library_an entire building where anyone could take things they didn't own and feel no remorse about it.

Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it.

The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.

Bitterness only consumes the vessel that contains it.

I'm drawn to emotionally damaged characters because there is more to unlock.

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

Truth must be dug up from the past and presented to the circle of scholastics in scientific form and then through stories and dramatizations that will permeate our educational system.

I think my mouth just opens and I spontaneously say things that occur to me.

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

Be yourself. No one else can.

At this moment, then, the Negroes must begin to do the very thing which they have been taught that they cannot do.

What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.

I had already learned from more than a decade of political life that I was going to be criticized no matter what I did, so I might as well be criticized for something I wanted to do.

I always feel better after a good scream.

We've got to decide that we want to live in a world that is sane and happy and healthy, and that everyone deserves that.

Wherever life takes us, there are always moments of wonder.

You can gain reconciliation from your enemies, but you can only gain peace from yourself.

We simply must balance our demand for energy with our rapidly shrinking resources. By acting now we can control our future instead of letting the future control us.

I dont find myself lobbying for projects. Filmmakers almost always come to me.

Do what you can to show you care about other people, and you will make our world a better place.

There is but one way to learn to do a thing and that is to do it.

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

There is nothing more important than a good, safe, secure home.

I write about my feelings, things that happen in my life and experiences.

When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.

I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.

A carefree quality is a whole aspect of life that I will never understand. I don't think I have ever been carefree and can't see the pleasure of it.

Everyone seems to think I'm very ladylike. That I'm very cultured and intelligent. I drink alot of Diet Coke and belch. I've been known to use the F-word. I've told a few dirty jokes. I arm-wrestle.

Kindness is the connection that links us all together and strengthens the bonds within our communities, neighborhoods, and families.

We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.

Always tell the truth, and take an interest in serving the people around you as much as possible.

The only theology worth doing is that which inspires and transforms lives, that which empowers us to participate in creating, liberating, and blessing the world.

More than 20 years on, sustained competition, informed customers and the rapid growth of new technology provide the necessary environment for substantial deregulation.

Creativity is not simply a property of exceptional people but an exceptional property of all people.

Many of the most highly publicized events of my presidency are not nearly as memorable or significant in my life as fishing with my daddy.

Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible.

And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.

Our lives are entwined with the people over the footlights. We are a part of them.

Go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.