#disco

...no matter how much Theo achieves and acquires and out-dazzles everyone else, she never seems content. She's taught you that people who shine more lavishly that everyone else seem to be penalized by discontent, as if they're being punished for craving a brighter life. I've been knocked down so many times I can't remember the number plates, she said once. ↗

— Nikki Gemmell

#discontent #life

But ultimately what I was impressed by during my years in government was how much the intellectual climate and the prevailing intellectual notions constrained and represented the universe within which the discourse took place. ↗

— Lawrence Summers

#constrained #discourse #during #government #how

During this earlier period of his activity Voltaire seems to have been trying - half unconsciously, perhaps - to discover and to express the fundamental quality of his genius. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#been #discover #during #earlier #express

The fault seems to me to have been that men have taken ancient country churches as their models and have failed to discover that between them and churches in towns there ought to be a most distinct and marked difference. ↗

— George Edmund Street

#been #between #churches #country #difference

Most awards, you know, they don't give you unless you go and get them - did you know that? Terribly discouraging. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#did #discouraging #get #give #go

No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant. ↗

— Amy Tan

#because #discouragement #encouragement #family #fiction

The old welfare system was hurting people by discouraging work and marriage. Welfare reform, and now this legislation, will build on the understanding that work and strong families are the foundation upon which we build our future. ↗

— Jim Talent

#discouraging #families #foundation #future #hurting

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#become #discovery #knowledge #our #quest

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings. ↗

— Helen Hayes

#books #discover #foot #how #laughter

The Libyan program recently discovered was far more extensive than was assessed prior to that. ↗

— David Kay

#discovered #extensive #far #libyan #more