#ended

Nina sniffed, shifting her shoulders to look at the sky through the branches. "She's a sweet girl, but poor." Ire pricked through me, and the last of his charisma shredded. "Being poor is not an indication of potential or worth. It's a lack of resources. ↗

— Kim Harrison

#money #offended #opportunity #poor #potential

We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away. ↗

— Zhuangzi

#away #cling #depended #everything #gradually

I ended up turning down a full scholarship of music at the conservatory to pay to go to cooking school. ↗

— Emeril Lagasse

#cooking #down #ended #full #go

My school is attended by near three hundred scholars. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#hundred #near #scholars #school #three

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse. ↗

— John Gay

#foe #friend #may #open #pretended

I'm working seven days a week in the fall. I couldn't possibly keep that up. This is only for the fall. In the last couple of years I've tended to do most of my serious writing in the winter, when there's nothing going on with football. ↗

— Gregg Easterbrook

#days #fall #football #going #i

This kind of prelude was succeeded by the concerto itself which he executed with a degree of spirit and firmness that no one has ever pretended to equal. ↗

— John Hawkins

#degree #equal #ever #executed #firmness

The Eagles ended on a rather abrupt note, although in retrospect I realize now that it had been ending for quite some time. ↗

— Don Henley

#although #been #eagles #ended #ending

I think most of the best new work is intended to have much more impact at once. ↗

— Donald Judd

#i #i think #impact #intended #more

It used to be that you had to make female TV characters perfect so no one would be offended by your 'portrayal' of women. Even when I started out on 'The Office' eight years ago, we could write our male characters funny and flawed, but not the women. And now, thankfully, it's completely different. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#characters #completely #could #different #eight