#line

Everybody starts at the top, and then has the problem of staying there. Lasting accomplishment, however, is still achieved through a long, slow climb and self-discipline. ↗

— Helen Hayes

#achieved #climb #everybody #however #lasting

A discipline I have observed is an attitude of love and reverence to people. ↗

— Bessie Head

#discipline #i #love #observed #people

I think there is something about L.A., fortunately: once you get one role people think, 'Oh well, someone employed her, so maybe we can.' I mean, that's my idea of it, anyway. 'She can put one foot in front of the other and say a line.' ↗

— Bella Heathcote

#anyway #employed #foot #fortunately #front

A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice. ↗

— Anthony Hecht

#best #done #escaped #finally #first

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap. ↗

— Cynthia Heimel

#being #between #brilliantly #creative #doubt

Television, although It's in steep decline, still occasionally gives voices to people who don't have voices. ↗

— Christopher Eccleston

#decline #gives #occasionally #people #steep

As soon as I finished the first book, I wrote a second, which I hope to sell this year, and I have just about finished the third book in the series. Two more are already outlined. I'm in this for the long haul. ↗

— Richard Helms

#already #book #finished #first #haul

People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#against #credit #elected #interests #line

[Y]ou are not ashamed of your sin [in committing adultery] because so many men commit it. Man's wickedness is now such that men are more ashamed of chastity than of lechery. Murderers, thieves, perjurers, false witnesses, plunderers and fraudsters are detested and hated by people generally, but whoever will sleep with his servant girl in brazen lechery is liked and admired for it, and people make light of the damage to his soul. And if any man has the nerve to say that he is chaste and faithful to his wife and this gets known, he is ashamed to mix with other men, whose behaviour is not like his, for they will mock him and despise him and say he's not a real man; for man's wickedness is now of such proportions that no one is considered a man unless he is overcome by lechery, while one who overcomes lechery and stays chaste is considered unmanly. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#clichés #crimes #double-standards #fidelity #gender

The natural urge when running a distance is to push harder and finish sooner - to race against time. Every second behind a deadline is a little defeat. ↗

— Joe Henderson

#behind #deadline #defeat #distance #every