Carl Brashear (Carl Maxie Brashear) Quotes
Sometimes I would come back from a run, and my artificial leg would have a puddle of blood from my stump. I wouldn't go to sick bay. In that year, if I had gone to sick bay, they would have written me up. I didn't go to sick bay. I'd go somewhere and hide and soak my leg in a bucket of hot water with salt in it--an old remedy. Then I'd get up the next morning and run.
Carl Brashear
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Democracy is about non-arbitrary decisions. Democracy is about spreading decisions; it is not about destroying processes.
Rahul Gandhi
True, when you behold Damascus from the Salahiyeh, the last slope of the Anti-Lebanon, it is the realization of all that you have dreamed of Oriental splendor; the world has no picture more dazzling. It is Beauty carried to the Sublime, as I have felt when overlooking some boundless forest of palms within the tropics.
Bayard Taylor
I was a very happy child, so to speak. But, since we didn't have video games or television, and very little radio, in terms of a form of entertainment, I used to read a lot and I would draw a lot, and those two things used to occupy my time.
Mako
I have a view that if you build something that's good, and you keep making it better, it lasts.
Adam D'Angelo
I am for poetry that is admired by peasant and aristocrat alike.
F. Sionil Jose
Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
Quincy Jones
I am in the world feeling my way to light 'amid the encircling gloom.'
Mahatma Gandhi
Once something is memorable, it's living and you're using it. That to me is the foundation of a creative society.
Yo-Yo Ma
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame traditionally has had a management style that is very supportive of American talent, first and foremost, over everything else. And I think that's right and proper.
Ian Anderson
I don't go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of great stories hinge on people being wrong.
Ira Glass
The celebrity's desire to shape the next generation of young minds by opening a school is by no means unique to Diddy.
Laura Moser
My husband is Dutch, and his family, when you sat down to eat food at the table, you never left the table until you ate living bread and drank living water. They never left the table until they'd read Scripture together. So morning, lunch, suppertime, Scripture was always read at the table, and then there was prayer to close.
Ann Voskamp
