#lives

If children were brought up to become non-conformists it would only ruin their lives. So parents all over China who loved their children told them to do as Chairman Mao said. It was not possible to tell them anything else. ↗

— Jung Chang

#become #brought #chairman #chairman mao #children

Unless you are really grounded and have a true sense of reality, you can get lost in that and a lot of people do and that's why you see so many people with successful careers but with destructive lives. ↗

— Morris Chestnut

#destructive #get #grounded #lives #lost

It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute. ↗

— Lillian Hellman

#even #good #lives #lose #minute

We've established a Washington State Academy of Sciences that will enable us to make decisions based on science about what is right for our state, meaning the quality of our lives will get better. ↗

— Christine Gregoire

#academy #based #better #decisions #enable

Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives. ↗

— William Cobbett

#lives #mind #misery

My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised. ↗

— Colin Firth

#been #complicity #engaged #grandparents #grown

I really think the biopic thing so rarely works, because people's lives don't have a dramatic shape that can be satisfying. ↗

— Bill Condon

#dramatic #i #lives #people #rarely

Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy. ↗

— Edward Dahlberg

#baffling #die #disordered #driven #few

It was there I met my future wife, Celeste Landry, although our lives took us separate ways for many years and we were not to marry until more than ten years later. ↗

— Eric Allin Cornell

#future #i #later #lives #many

Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#forget #invention #lives #long #much