#in

If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides. ↗

— Robert Quillen

#accurately #anything #attention #called #chiefly

I survived, but it's not a happy ending. ↗

— Tim O'Brien

#life #survival #life

In the spiritual world many forms of the physical universe that are potentially effective can be perceived but with regard to time, we can observe only one form. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money #motivational #new-age

Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#baby #bisexual #come #domino #down

I don't have to listen to the Gospel on Sunday to know the stories of the New Testament. They inform so much of what I write that they're practically like a news scrim that goes through my brain 24/7. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#goes #gospel #i #i write #inform

It is a sinful abomination for one part of the world's Christians to grow richer year by year while our brothers and sisters ache and suffer for lack of minimal health care, minimal education, and even—in some cases—enough food to escape starvation. ↗

— Ronald J. Sider

#accumulating-wealth #brotherhood #christian #education #food

I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience. ↗

— Robert Quine

#early #experience #i #into #lessons

Meanwhile after failing the bar twice, I knew some people in New York and moved here in August '71. ↗

— Robert Quine

#august #bar #failing #here #i

My playing started to develop through the Miles Davis stuff I was listening to. ↗

— Robert Quine

#develop #i #listening #miles #miles davis

'Ouch' is not independent of social training. One has only to prick a foreigner to appreciate that it is an English word. ↗

— Willard Van Orman Quine

#english #foreigner #independent #only #social