#eva

There is nothing that says unions have a God-given right to be there. We have to work at it and make ourselves relevant to every section of the workforce. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#god-given #god-given right #make #nothing #ourselves

I woke up one morning to find I was famous. I bought a white Rolls-Royce and drove down Sunset Boulevard, wearing dark specs and a white suit, waving like the Queen Mum. ↗

— Peter O'Toole

#boulevard #dark #down #drove #famous

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone. ↗

— Ann Oakley

#evaporates #exists #gone #integrity #left

Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more than it is about winning. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#being #boxing #devastating #feeling #hit

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen. ↗

— Barack Obama

#along #american #bridges #build #business

This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands. ↗

— Barack Obama

#come #devastate #famine #lands #leave

Everyone is usually screwed up in some way and that is usually where the work comes in - figuring out how to make it believable and make it real to present someone's problems that you don't necessarily actually know anything about. ↗

— Anna Paquin

#actually #anything #believable #comes #everyone

In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind. ↗

— Gilbert Parker

#end #evasion #good #good end #guilt

It is probably safe to say that all the changes of factual knowledge which have led to the relativity theory, resulting in a very great theoretical development, are completely trivial from any point of view except their relevance to the structure of a theoretical system. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#changes #completely #development #except #factual

Feeling has as much to say as the words do. You can have the greatest words in the world and if they're not believable, they don't strike a chord and they're not said convincingly, it's not a great song. ↗

— Sam Phillips

#chord #convincingly #feeling #great #greatest