#lon

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. ↗

— Mark Twain

#education #long #long run #massacre #more

When you're onstage and the audience is smiling and singing and bopping along and you're all on the same level, it's the best feeling in the world. It may sound dumb and corny to say it, but it's like pure love. ↗

— Joan Jett

#audience #best #corny #dumb #feeling

Some people want fame, popularity and huge sales. I've always hoped to have a really long career. So I've tried to make each of my creative decisions and business decisions to allow for longevity. As a side effect I got really famous and really big. I didn't realize the two could go together. ↗

— Jewel

#always #big #business #career #could

It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I'm still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#get #i #just #long #mean

I get asked a lot why Apple's customers are so loyal. It's not because they belong to the Church of Mac! That's ridiculous. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#asked #because #belong #church #customers

But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware of this till she is pretty far along with it. ↗

— Diane Johnson

#along #always #author #aware #deeper

Raising a small child as a woman while travelling 10 months out of the year would, I believe, be something I would not be able or even want to do, although with the amazing example of Leila, I am no longer so sure. ↗

— Lara St. John

#although #am #amazing #believe #child

The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone. ↗

— Pope John XXIII

#arms #consists #equality #mutual #mutual trust

For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state. ↗

— Adam Johnson

#actions #censored #change #character #dangerous

London is a fantastic creator of jobs - but many of these jobs are going to people who don't originate in this country. ↗

— Boris Johnson

#creator #fantastic #going #jobs #london