#iving

The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness. ↗

— James Gates Percival

#brightness #dance #full #living #melodies

The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#age #become #creates #generation #greater

The United States is the only power in history that became great by giving and not by taking. I think the crisis was when the United States had more money than ideas. Money doesn't produce money. Ideas produce money. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#crisis #giving #great #had #history

I do have to earn a living, so I'm conscious of probable reactions from readers, but the most important one is still the awareness that if I'm not enjoying a story, the reader won't either. ↗

— Thomas Perry

#conscious #earn #either #enjoying #i

Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

#incompetence #levels #men #monopolize #now

Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them. ↗

— Ellis Peters

#conferred #engaging #even #gratification #having

I don't want the 35-year-olds in my audience to think of me as as 'pops' giving the kind of advice that only 65-year-olds can understand. ↗

— Tom Peters

#audience #giving #i #kind #me

True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness. ↗

— Petrarch

#always #because #life #living #love

I quit driving, I'm not retired. ↗

— Richard Petty

#i #i quit #quit #retired

When I decided to be a musician I reckoned that that was going to be the way of less profit, less money. I was sort of giving up the idea of making a lot of money. It was what I loved to do. I would have done it anyway. If I'd had to work at Taco Bell I'd have still been out at night trying to play music. ↗

— Tom Petty

#been #bell #decided #done #giving