#able

Many smart folks seem to think that if you just get your metaphors and messages right, you'll win. That if you start describing what you favor as a 'moral value' - 'affordable health care is a moral value' etc., - then you'll appeal to red-state voters. ↗

— Eric Liu

#affordable health care #appeal #care #describing #etc

We all want merit to mean something, and we all may be tempted to reduce that meaning to something measurable and concrete like an SAT score. The reality, though, is that who deserves entry into an institution depends on what the institution exists to do. ↗

— Eric Liu

#depends #deserves #entry #exists #institution

Since we didn't use guns, we wanted to make sure we could earn the ability to win the audience over by making it believable. A lot of what you do when you work out in that mode is use your mental energy. ↗

— Lucy Liu

#audience #believable #could #earn #energy

I've missed being able to flip in the air, flip on the beam and swing on the bars. ↗

— Nastia Liukin

#air #bars #beam #being #flip

Supergirl is such an iconic brand, and for me to be able to be the new face of it is extremely exciting. ↗

— Nastia Liukin

#brand #exciting #extremely #face #iconic

Since then, I have just read and read - but, that said, I suppose there is a raft of writers to whom I return again and again, not so much because I want to write like them, even if I were capable of it, but simply for a sort of stylistic shot in the arm. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#arm #because #capable #even #i

Life is not always like chess. Just because you have the king surrounded, don't think he is not capable of hurting you. ↗

— Ron Livingston

#because #capable #chess #hurting #just

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#better #books #conversation #man #mere

Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#deserved #destiny #fame #inevitable #only

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts. ↗

— Virgil

#about #cares #counts #knows #little