#lit

As my mom says, I was a little bit of a slacker in high school. I really was just kind of unmotivated, a little bit lazy, so my grades weren't that good. ↗

— Savannah Guthrie

#good #grades #high #high school #i

You know, we - we start with a mentality that we'll take a sports project if its good. And we're certainly not on the lookout for them, because to be honest we don't have to. They walk in the door. ↗

— Jim Lampley

#certainly #door #good #honest #know

The life sciences contain spiritual values which can never be explained by the materialistic attitude of present day science ↗

— Sherwin B. Nuland

#science #spirtuality #attitude

There is nothing here that's broken that can't be fixed, but it won't happen on its own. It's going to require a huge lift by the entire country of the United States of America and people on the ground taking personal responsibility for themselves. You cannot take it as a fait accompli that the city's going to come back. ↗

— Mitch Landrieu

#back #broken #cannot #city #come

It is very kind of you to consider the possibility of my working in Pasadena, an idea which certainly is attractive, especially since it would hold out the prospect of your cooperation or advice. ↗

— Karl Landsteiner

#attractive #certainly #consider #cooperation #especially

But when I was seven or eight, I did my first little piece of acting. ↗

— Frank Langella

#did #eight #first #i #little

I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins. ↗

— Norman Lear

#greater #i #i think #leadership #morality

It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots and bumps until the prose before her took on a sheen, like perfect caramel. ↗

— David Leavitt

#before #bumps #her #instinct #knots

I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States. ↗

— Barbara Lee

#acts #against #am #convinced #further

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential. ↗

— Bruce Lee

#child #development #duty #ever #expansion