#hem

When we see people that are impoverished and people who are dealt an unfair hand, then if we have the power to help them, we should try to do that. ↗

— John Legend

#hand #help #impoverished #people #power

I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There is the sense that we are all, as writers, part of something which is more powerful than any of us. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#days #discussing #i #i have learned #learned

It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#deny #ever #existed #kill #obsessed

Soon, I knew that I would become a chemist, rather than a composer. ↗

— Richard Ernst

#chemist #composer #i #knew #rather

I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#always #believe #childhoods #craziest #ever

These are men and women who are willing to risk their lives in defense of their country. And the fact that their orientation - sexual orientation's been held against them is a blot on our nation's reputation. ↗

— Dick Durbin

#been #blot #country #defense #fact

Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#emotions #place #them #unless #you

To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it. ↗

— Elizabeth I

#crown #glorious #king #more #pleasant

As an actor, I am meant to dabble with different themes and genres. ↗

— Sanjay Dutt

#am #dabble #different #genres #i

I'm always going back to one thing - my family... It's my family, my religion, my fighters. Put them in any order you want. ↗