#ena

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity. ↗

— Louis Pasteur

#led #lies #me #secret #solely

Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces. ↗

— Ann Patchett

#being #being a teenager #disastrous #fluffy #i

Edible substances evoke the secretion of thick, concentrated saliva. Why? The answer, obviously, is that this enables the mass of food to pass smoothly through the tube leading from the mouth into the stomach. ↗

— Ivan Pavlov

#concentrated #edible #enables #evoke #food

Great was the name of Abraham, but all his Sons were not accepted; only Isaac was in the Covenant. ↗

— John Pearson

#accepted #covenant #great #his #isaac

Please. Put the gun down and we'll talk. A beautiful woman holding a small cannon plays hell with my concentration. Christovao (Chris) Santos, Sanctuary ↗

— Sharon K. Garner

#children-s-book-illustrators #farming-in-brazil #mercenaries #romance #romantic-suspense

But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for stopping it. Everyone tried to get out of its way. ↗

— Frances Perkins

#came #depression #everyone #get #glacier

I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent. ↗

— Madeleine Peyroux

#artists #bunch #discovered #early #especially

It was in New York, and I've always wanted to film in New York. And the writer was a teenage friend of mine. We did youth theatre together when we were 16 and always had a dream of making a film together. And ten years later, we've done it. So it's great. ↗

— Rosamund Pike

#did #done #dream #film #friend

It is the nature of the Kali Yuga that most human beings are now held back from spiritual liberation due to the gravity of inertia, apathy and laziness, (known in Sankrit as the quality of tapas) that overwhelms this age. Despite this seemingly gloomy prognosis, there is a way out of this predicament for those with the will and stamina to awaken from the rampant lethargy, within and outside of themselves, to take action. ↗

— Zeena Schreck

#left-hand-path #religion #strength #tantra #zeena-schreck

New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

#airplane #any #artists #atom #atom bomb