#ends

In contravention of my belief that any life ending in death is essentially pointless, I needed my friends to open up that plastic bag and take one last look at me. Someone had to remember me, if only for a few more minutes in the vast silent waiting room of time. ↗

— Gary Shteyngart

#friends #friendship #life-lessons #waiting #death

I know, speaking for myself, no matter what I'm able to do, no matter what book comes out and ends up on paper, I always had something bigger and grander in my head. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#always #bigger #book #comes #ends

Standardization of our educational systems is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up. ↗

— Harvey Cushing

#defeat #down #education #educational #ends

I play- it's kind of like a slice-of-life, LA women in their forties, playing forty kind of what's their friendship like, and what's their life like and so I just play one of the four friends. ↗

— Joan Cusack

#forty #four #friends #friendship #i

I worry about another leg down in the economies causing social disruption because deleveragings can be very painful - it depends on how they're managed. ↗

— Ray Dalio

#another #because #causing #depends #disruption

Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy. ↗

— Edwidge Danticat

#interests #nations #over #policy #said

I don't have many friends. ↗

— Larry David

#i #many

The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#called #discussion #drama #intellectual #itself

We've got people, our friends and neighbors, who are losing their jobs, factories being closed. We have to get America moving again. ↗

— James Douglas

#america #being #closed #factories #friends

The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#cost #could #everything #friends #grow