#eu

The only consistent hobby I've had is studying Spanish and French because of some delusion of grandeur to work around the world. I love sports but usually I'm looking for the next job. ↗

— William Sanderson

#because #consistent #delusion #french #grandeur

You can't build Europe against anyone. ↗

— Jacques Santer

#anyone #build #europe #you

Indeed, the creators of the euro envisioned it as an instrument to promote political union. ↗

— Gerhard Schroder

#envisioned #euro #indeed #instrument #political

It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited. ↗

— Lewis B. Smedes

#forgive #people #person #reunited #takes

Are you all right, Sir?" asked Hezekiah. "Just fighting over old battles in my mind," said John. "It's the problem with age. You have all these rusty arguments, and no quarrel to use them in. My brain is a museum, but alas, I'm the only visitor, and even I am not terribly interested in the displays." Hezekiah laughed, but there was affection in it. "I would love nothing better than to visit there. But I'm afraid I'd be tempted to loot the place, and carry it all away with me. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#brain #honor #mind #museum #age

It’s not easy to be God. ↗

— Péter Zilahy

#coming-of-age #dark-humour #sacrifice #age

There is certainly a universal and unconscious propensity to impose a rhythm even when one hears a series of identical sounds at constant intervals... We tend to hear the sound of a digital clock, for example, as "tick-tock, tick-tock" - even though it is actually "tick tick, tick tick. ↗

— Oliver Sacks

#music #neuroscience #music

I am not yet come of age, my lord. How can I be queen?” asked Constance fearfully. ↗

— Laurel A. Rockefeller

#medieval #murder #queen #royal #young

If I should ever have children I will tell them what religion they are so they can start learning about it at an early age. Twelve is very late to learn. Sincerely, Margaret Ann Simon ↗

— Judy Blume

#judyblume #age

We do need to bring to our writing, over and over again, all the abundance we possess. To be able, to be ready, to enter into the minds and hearts of our own people, all of them, to comprehend them (us) and then to make characters and plots in stories that in honesty and with honesty reveal them (ourselves) to us, in whatever situation we live through in our own times: this is the continuing job, and it's no harder now than it ever was, I suppose. Every writer, like everybody else, thinks he's living through the crisis of the ages. To write honestly and with all our powers is the least we can do, and the most ↗

— Eudora Welty

#writers #writing #age