#lit

While Haiti has recently celebrated more than 200 years of independence from French colonial rule, the citizens of the island remain vulnerable to poverty, poor health, and political chaos. ↗

— Eliot Engel

#chaos #citizens #colonial #french #haiti

You win by working hard, making tough decisions and building coalitions. ↗

— John Engler

#coalitions #decisions #hard #making #tough

Having been to Europe and working and traveling there, the restaurants my wife and I remember were always off the beaten trail restaurants. So I tried to seek a little 'off the beaten trail,' but cool area. ↗

— Todd English

#area #beaten #been #cool #europe

I think a lot of people have a misconception of what the kitchen is about, but you know the grueling part of it is also the pleasure of it. That's why I think you have to have a certain mentality to understand what that is and be able to handle it. ↗

— Todd English

#about #also #certain #grueling #handle

I'm afraid I talk a lot, too much, perhaps. I should have been a lawyer or a college professor or a windy politician, though I'm glad I am not any of these. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#afraid #am #any #been #college

Memories are of the ethereal, and not the material world, that is how I know I am forever. ↗

— Michael Poeltl

#enlightenment #forever #life-lessons #memories #spirituality

If you're in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect. ↗

— Brian Eno

#because #echo #echoes #effect #forest

When the soul has left the body, it belongs to death. And it cannot be taken back without a price. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#lilith #soul #death

When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue. ↗

— Brian Eno

#because #become #being #community #consciousness

I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary. ↗

— Enya

#been #celebrity #could #did #famous