#lis

Let's put it this way: if you are a novelist, I think you start out with a 20 word idea, and you work at it and you wind up with a 200,000 word novel. We, picture-book people, or at least I, start out with 200,000 words and I reduce it to 20. ↗

— Eric Carle

#i #i think #idea #least #novel

Parents who spoil their children out of 'love' should realize that they are performing acts of child abuse. Although there are no laws against such abuse--no man-made laws anyway--this spiritual mistreatment may result in as much long-term personal and social damage as the worst physical abuse. ↗

— Randy Alcorn

#affluenza #child-abuse #materialism #love

I'm singing the music publisher's theme song - it ain't a commercial. ↗

— Hoagy Carmichael

#i #music #publisher #singing #song

When I was first starting out, and I was less established, I was really concerned about being typecast. ↗

— Charisma Carpenter

#being #concerned #established #first #i

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else. ↗

— Shirley Chisholm

#country #determination #else #idealism #more

Talking about a materialistic thing, I get about 13 times more royalties from Europe than I do from America. ↗

— Elliott Carter

#america #europe #get #i #i do

To turn the tide of materialism in the Christian community, we desperately need bold models of kingdom-centered living. Despite our need to do it in a way that doesn't glorify people, we must hear each other's stories about giving or else our people will not learn to give. ↗

— Randy Alcorn

#christianity #community #encouragement #example #giving

If Adam and Eve were not hunter-gatherers, then they were certainly gatherers. But, then, consumer desire, or self-embitterment, or the 'itch,' as Schopenhauer called it, appeared in the shape of the serpent. This capitalistic monster awakens in Adam and Eve the possibility that things could be better. Instantly, they are cast out of the garden and condemned to a life of toil, drudgery, and pain. Wants supplanted needs, and things have been going downhill ever since. ↗

— Tom Hodgkinson

#anarchism #capitalism #freedom #freedom

People call me wild. Not really though, I'm not.I guess I've never been normal, not what you call Establishment. I'm country. ↗

— Johnny Cash

#call #country #establishment #guess #i

I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school. ↗

— Jackie Chan

#english #every #every day #go #had