#ives

And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so. ↗

— A. B. Yehoshua

#cross #how #keep #lives #major

I've learned that getting what you want gives you a pretty high batting average, and leaves you plenty to struggle for. ↗

— Loretta Young

#batting #getting #gives #high #i

Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks. ↗

— Lin Yutang

#gods #lap #lives #our #our lives

Social Democratic and trade union organs have approved of the illegal invasion of Belgium, of the massacre of suspected guerrillas, as well as their wives and children, as well as the destruction of their homes in various towns and districts. ↗

— Clara Zetkin

#belgium #children #democratic #destruction #districts

I look at modern life and I see people not taking responsibility for their lives. The temptation to blame, to find external causes to one's own issues is something that is particularly modern. I know that personally I find that sense of responsibility interesting. ↗

— Edward Zwick

#causes #external #find #i #i see

Richard Branson once said: 'Tony's very good at selling bands and he's very good at making television programmes. But he'll never be great at either, until he decides which one he wants to do.' I entirely accept that. That doesn't matter to me very much. I like the irony of the two lives. ↗

— Tony Wilson

#bands #decides #either #entirely #good

America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#chooses #destiny #every #every man #everywhere

Conservatives and those on the right are usually willing to settle for thinking themselves correct on political issues; those on the left have always needed to feel not so much that they are correct but that they are also good. Disagree with someone on the right and he is likely to think you obtuse, wrong, sentimental, foolish, a dope; disagree with someone one the left and he is more likely to think you selfish, cold-hearted, a sellout, evil-in league with the devil, he might say, if he didn't think religious terminology too coarse for our secular age. To this day one will hear of people who fell for Communism in a big way let off the hook because they were sincere; if one's heart is in the right place, nothing else matters, even if one's naive opinions made it easier for tyrants to murder millions. ↗

— Joseph Epstein

#conservatives #government #leftism #liberalism #liberals

I talked to the players and tried to make them aware of what was good and bad, but I didn't try to run their lives. ↗

— John Wooden

#bad #good #good and bad #i #lives

As we divest ourselves of once familiar physical objects - digitize and dematerialize - we approach a 'Star Trek' future in which everything can be accessed from the fourth dimension with a few clicks or terse audibles. ↗

— James Wolcott

#clicks #dimension #divest #everything #familiar