#com

For me, half the joy of achieving has been the struggle and the fight, the pitting myself against the world and all its competition - and winning. ↗

— Conrad Veidt

#against #been #competition #fight #half

Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves. ↗

— John Tillotson

#brings #commonly #end #his #journey

So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students' work and a boundless optimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#boundless #busy #complete #creativity #devotion

There is a cost that comes with moving schools so often and it's not what I want for my son when he gets older, but it did make me very adaptable. I became aware of what was missing from the social structure of each class that I arrived in, and made sure to fill that gap. ↗

— Jennifer Ehle

#arrived #aware #became #class #comes

In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#blacks #clear #compared #evidence #fact

You know, being an entertainer is partly being on the road, and a lot of your songs come from the road. ↗

— Mel Tillis

#come #entertainer #know #lot #partly

As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#africa #because #books #central #comic

We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because "two" is "one and one." We forget that we still have to make a study of "and." ↗

— Arthur Eddington

#because #completed #forget #know #make

My faith has been the driving thing of my life. I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#afraid #been #community #driving #faith

You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Don't just try to come in and take somebody else's life. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#alone #beings #build #come #else