#inked

We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#language #linked #memory #without

For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed? ↗

— Bell Hooks

#always #believe #capacity #compassion #enough

Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I've never considered it a neutral or passive profession. ↗

— Bill Ayers

#been #considered #i #issues #justice

Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today. ↗

— Leonid I. Brezhnev

#common #continues #divide #else #europe

The way you want to respond is to ask a question: Is this technology directly relevant to our hedgehog concept? If the answer is YES, then we want to become pioneers, not in the technology, but in the application of that technology specifically linked to our hedgehog concept. ↗

— James Collins

#application #ask #become #concept #directly

Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up. ↗

— Philip Larkin

#bound #children #fact #forgiven #grow

But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#become #corruption #course #deeper #destroyed

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death. ↗

— Herman Melville

#always #aught #death #less #life

There have been people who have tried to take advantage of me. They want to be linked to me just because I'm Ethel Merman. ↗

— Ethel Merman

#because #been #i #just #just because

One can't deny what has happened to us in the past. The secret is to enjoy and be proud of the music we've created and the people with whom we have been linked. It's all a long chain of involvement in the world, and we are proud to be yet another link in this chain. ↗

— Graham Nash

#been #chain #created #deny #enjoy