#live

You shouldn't get to live in society and give nothing back. People complain about their taxes, yet they do nothing for the community. That makes me furious. ↗

— Kathleen Turner

#back #community #complain #furious #get

You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for. ↗

— Ted Turner

#beyond #goals #live #reach #set

Although they are some of the hardest working folks I know, rural Americans earn, on average, $11,000 less than their urban counterparts each year. And they are more likely to live in poverty. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#average #counterparts #each #earn #folks

We're going to move from a commodity economy where you basically grow the same kind of crops - where a kernel of corn is a kernel of corn is a kernel of corn - to an ingredient economy where there will be a kernel of corn that will be designed for fuel, there will be a kernel of corn designed for livestock. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#commodity #corn #crops #designed #economy

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#been #die #how #i #learning

And so The Snow Queen also became a story about the need to seek equilibrium, in our own lives, with the natural world, even within the universe at large. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#also #became #equilibrium #even #large

I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't without pretense. There was this idea in the town that if something was European it would be good. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#any #background #college #come #european

Finally I had a place where I could express my pain and I felt safe because I didn't have to put my name on it. I think acting kept me alive back then. ↗

— Lindsay Wagner

#alive #back #because #could #express

My kids are at a point in their lives where I'm a moral compass for them. God help them both. ↗

— Jack Wagner

#compass #god #god help #help #i

I had lived a charmed life, and then I lost a beautiful woman I loved with all my heart. ↗

— Robert Wagner

#beautiful woman #charmed #had #heart #i