#gain

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it. ↗

— Walt Disney

#along #been #competition #get #how

And if you ask again whether there is any justice in the world, you'll have to be satisfied with the reply: Not for the time being; at any rate, not up to this Friday. ↗

— Alfred Doblin

#any #ask #being #friday #justice

The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one. ↗

— George Gissing

#book #excellent #first #first time #friend

I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words. ↗

— Anthony Doerr

#always #because #been #diary #doing

When you hear music, after it's over, it's gone, in the air. You can never capture it again. ↗

— Eric Dolphy

#again #air #capture #gone #hear

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#gain #leisure #meanest #thou #thy

The system of volunteerism is divisive. It pits one charity against the others for the charity dollar. ↗

— Phil Donahue

#charity #divisive #dollar #others #pits

If you have a setback, and you're not doing well and then you overcome it somehow, it always sticks with you. You know it could happen again. ↗

— Sam Donaldson

#always #could #doing #happen #know

I extend my deepest gratitude to our Armed Forces and first responders serving both at home and abroad in the war against terrorism. ↗

— John Doolittle

#against #armed #armed forces #both #deepest

If people are concerned about my house and where I live again it's much more of a reflection on them than it is on me. ↗

— Alexander Downer

#again #concerned #house #i #live