#lives

Lives, like money, are spent. What are you buying with yours? ↗

— Roy H. Williams

#like #lives #money #spent #you

He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles. ↗

— Francis Wright

#curiously #directed #equally #exercise #faculties

If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone. ↗

— George Will

#gone #job #lives #ordinary #spectacle

Society is becoming less and less transparent. People no longer know where decisions that substantially affect their lives are taken, nor by whom, nor how. ↗

— Georg Henrik von Wright

#becoming #decisions #how #know #less

And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so. ↗

— A. B. Yehoshua

#cross #how #keep #lives #major

I look at modern life and I see people not taking responsibility for their lives. The temptation to blame, to find external causes to one's own issues is something that is particularly modern. I know that personally I find that sense of responsibility interesting. ↗

— Edward Zwick

#causes #external #find #i #i see

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

America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#chooses #destiny #every #every man #everywhere

I talked to the players and tried to make them aware of what was good and bad, but I didn't try to run their lives. ↗

— John Wooden

#bad #good #good and bad #i #lives

Charles de Lint creates a magical world that’s not off in a distant Neverland but here and now and accessible, formed by the “magic” of friendship, art, community, and social activism. Although most of his books have not been published specifically for adolescents and young adults, nonetheless young readers find them and embrace them with particular passion. I’ve long lost count of the number of times I’ve heard people from troubled backgrounds say that books by Charles saved them in their youth, and kept them going. ↗

— Terri Windling

#charles-de-lint #childhood #power-of-stories #reading #save-lives