#jo

You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#chaser #die #down #feel #job

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#alike #coercion #find #fruitless #itself

Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil. ↗

— Leigh Steinberg

#athlete #authorities #chances #even #forty

I haven't always done a good job, and I haven't always been successful - but I know that I have tried. ↗

— George Steinbrenner

#been #done #good #good job #haven

When I look at how the banking world has changed and at the role Chinese banks, for example, play today, Germany, as an export-oriented economy, should be pleased to have a major global player in its camp. ↗

— Peer Steinbruck

#banks #camp #changed #chinese #economy

It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#after #believe #con #corporations #death

The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion. ↗

— George Steiner

#biographies #domestic #gray #human #immense

The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform. ↗

— George Steiner

#event #every #honing #impact #individual

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water. ↗

— Stendhal

#art #come #finds #genius #hell

The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man. ↗

— Stendhal

#both #desire #especially #fashionable #fine