#hen

If you ever want something badly, let it go. If it comes back to you, then it's yours forever. If it doesn't, then it was never yours to begin with. ↗

— Blake Lively

#badly #begin #comes #ever #forever

Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#endless #equally #frequently #hence #history

I can walk about London and see a society that seems an absolutely revolutionary change from the 1950s, that seems completely and utterly different, and then I can pick up on something where you suddenly see that it's not. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#absolutely #change #completely #different #i

I have had to empty two family homes during the last few years - first, the house that had been my grandmother's since 1923, and then my own country home, which we had lived in for over twenty years. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#country #during #empty #family #few

Since then, I have just read and read - but, that said, I suppose there is a raft of writers to whom I return again and again, not so much because I want to write like them, even if I were capable of it, but simply for a sort of stylistic shot in the arm. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#arm #because #capable #even #i

Then I grew up and fell in love, I asked my sweetheart, 'what lies ahead? ↗

— Jay Livingston

#asked #fell #grew #i #lies

Alan is a great guy, a terrific guy. We haven't worked together since then, and he's always working with different artists. I think he sees different dimensions he can see from different guys. ↗

— David Lloyd

#always #artists #different #dimensions #great

Of course, not everybody's willing to go out and do the experiments, but for the people who are willing to go out and do that, - if the experiments don't work, then it means it's not science. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#everybody #experiments #for the people #go #means

If troubled companies want to explain away 2008 as a 'black swan,' then someone should take responsibility for creating the oil slick that seems to have tarred the entire flock! ↗

— Andrew Lo

#black #companies #creating #entire #explain

If the Chinese can't buy U.S. products, they'll buy them from European countries and then develop stronger economic ties with France and Germany and perhaps side more with those countries when international issues flare up. ↗

— Gary Locke

#chinese #countries #develop #economic #european