#com

The war project at Stanford was essentially completed, and I accepted an offer of an Assistant Professorship at the University of Minnesota, which had a good biochemistry department. ↗

— Paul D. Boyer

#assistant #biochemistry #completed #department #essentially

I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out, we'd talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#acute #bit #come #depression #every

Come a crisis, we want other people. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#crisis #other #people #want

But I know somebody who has a bedside urinal. How do I compete with that? ↗

— Lara Flynn Boyle

#compete #how #i #know #somebody

Everything was coming my way, but I was going down. I was painfully empty. ↗

— Lorraine Bracco

#down #empty #everything #going #i

When I tried this morning, after an hour or so of unhappy thinking, to dip back into my meditation, I took a new idea with me: compassion. I asked my heart if it could please infuse my soul with a more generous perspective on my mind's workings. Instead of thinking that I was a failure, could I perhaps accept that I am only a human being--and a normal one, at that? ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#love

And I think women have come a very, very long way, but they have a long way to go. ↗

— Lara Flynn Boyle

#come #go #i #i think #long

It is a great compliment to go out and be recognized. Although, because I basically go home and go to work, there isn't much opportunity for that kind of thing to happen. ↗

— Lara Flynn Boyle

#basically #because #compliment #go #go home

There are comics who treat women fairly appallingly. But I can be great friends with them because I don't tend to do that ticking of boxes: it can make life too simplistic. ↗

— Jo Brand

#boxes #comics #fairly #friends #great

I know what real courage is, and I understand true compassion. ↗

— Mo Yan

#courage #i #know #real #true