#ate

There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#alcoholic #anything #benefit #father #having

I live a perfectly happy and comfortable life in Blair's Britain, but I can't work up much affection for the culture we've created for ourselves: it's too cynical, too knowing, too ironic, too empty of real value and meaning. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#blair #britain #comfortable #comfortable life #created

Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#attached #comfortable #feel #having #however

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#celebrity #great #great success #i #i am

Reducing the budget for Amtrak makes no sense unless the Administration is prepared to implement a reform strategy which can be supported by the budget request. ↗

— Kit Bond

#amtrak #budget #implement #makes #prepared

But no work from a first rate mind is ever really second rate. ↗

— Gerald Finzi

#first #mind #rate #really #second

There is no room in the world, as you say, for second rate work. ↗

— Gerald Finzi

#room #say #second #work #world

The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#avoid #each #formulae #letting #make

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#answer #art #classical #i #i think

As for September 11, let us not too easily grant the Americans possession of that date on the calendar. Like May 1 or July 14 or December 25, September 11 may seem full of significance to some people, while to other people it is just another day. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#another day #calendar #date #day #december