#dee

Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future. ↗

— Paul Wellstone

#deepest #dreams #experiences #expression #form

Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There's a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#background #culture #deeper #deeper level #get

The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed. ↗

— Robert Welch

#fortune #good #good fortune #imposed #indeed

Positive words left unsaid are like sachets of currency notes burnt in vain. Positive deeds left undone are like deep wells filled with soil to the brim. Do the undone, say the unsaid and turn the unturned. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#currency #deed #deeds #deep #do

The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed. ↗

— Byron White

#busy #choices #clause #constantly #courts

When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad. ↗

— E. B. White

#beyond #bury #child #deep #happy

We had a much deeper sense of community in '67 than we do in '97. This is important to say that not in a nostalgic way because it's not as if '67 was a time when things were so good. ↗

— Cornel West

#community #deeper #good #had #important

My father got to know my mother because on his hunts he would sometimes collect medicinal herbs and sell them to her shop to be brewed into remedies. She must have really loved him to leave her home for the Seam. I try to remember that when all I can see is the woman who sat by, blank and unreachable, while her children turned to skin and bones. I try to forgive her for my father's sake. But to be honest, I'm not the forgiving type. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#forgiveness

With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see. ↗

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#every #harvest #may #see #seed

When leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and saviors, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply stressed. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#back #deeply #end #exhausted #heroes