#ding

Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name! ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#fading #fame #grave #little #name

There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#few #leading #lie #life #ones

As a songwriter you have an umbilical cord to the song and it's hard to expand on your understanding of the lyrics. Whereas when you cover a song you can create your own reason why you're attached to it. ↗

— K. D. Lang

#cord #cover #create #expand #hard

It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality. ↗

— K. D. Lang

#i #just #personality #physical #really

You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself. ↗

— K. D. Lang

#audience #essentially #respect #singing #standing

Accordingly, one race is neither superior nor inferior to another. ↗

— Walter Lang

#another #inferior #neither #nor #race

It seems we will continue to have problems with this classification and it may be because it comes under the heading of creation rather than preservation. ↗

— Walter Lang

#classification #comes #continue #creation #heading

Thus, races arose from an original coding which God pulled out as needed for adaptation to the environment. ↗

— Walter Lang

#arose #coding #environment #god #needed

In particular, the efforts to reestablish peace after the World War have been directed toward the formation of states and the regulation of their frontiers according to a consciously national program. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#after #been #consciously #directed #efforts

The simultaneous reactions elicited all over the world by the reading of newspaper dispatches about the same events create, as it were, a common mental pulse beat for the whole of civilized mankind. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#beat #civilized #common #create #events