#lives

I am proud to represent these men and women who empower people in developing nations and promote the Peace Corps mission of peace and friendship. These volunteers are making major strides to improve the lives of people and communities around the world. ↗

— Kenny Marchant

#around #communities #corps #developing #empower

Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives. ↗

— Camilo Jose Cela

#literature #lives #times #which

In our daily lives as programmers, we process text strings a lot. So I tried to work hard on text processing, namely the string class and regular expressions. Regular expressions are built into the language and are very tuned up for use. ↗

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

#class #daily #daily lives #expressions #hard

We need to have a purpose in this life. I'm pleading with you, I'm begging with you to do the right thing. And do it not for the sake of how it will impact your own lives, but only for the sake of doing the right thing. ↗

— James McGreevey

#do the right thing #doing #doing the right thing #how #i

It takes a lot of energy and creativity to make such screwed up lives carry on. And the kind of will people have to survive, year after year, dealing with that stuff, is weirdly impressive. ↗

— Jon McGregor

#carry #creativity #dealing #energy #impressive

I tell students that even if they don't like math right now, they can use math as a brain-sharpening tool - a tool that not only builds the foundation for a great career, but that also builds self-confidence, no matter what they choose to do with their lives. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#builds #career #choose #even #foundation

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#almost #any #comes #conclusion #dangerous

One of the first things I did was interview the President of the United States. Some people work their whole lives and can't interview someone of that stature. ↗

— Maria Menounos

#first #first things #i #interview #lives

Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks. ↗

— Lin Yutang

#gods #lap #lives #our #our lives

Richard Branson once said: 'Tony's very good at selling bands and he's very good at making television programmes. But he'll never be great at either, until he decides which one he wants to do.' I entirely accept that. That doesn't matter to me very much. I like the irony of the two lives. ↗

— Tony Wilson

#bands #decides #either #entirely #good