#los

My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak. ↗

— John le Carre

#decent #definition #first #first of all #losers

When I first came here, Hollywood was very closed-minded. ↗

— Tia Carrere

#closed-minded #first #here #hollywood #i

I've never been one to sit back and go, 'I'd better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don't want to lose them.' ↗

— Jim Carrey

#back #because #been #better #go

I freak out if I go a little too long without being in the gym. For a long time it was all about getting the weight off because I was 240 pounds at my heaviest, and now I'm around 175, so the majority of that weight loss was due to diet and exercise. ↗

— Nick Carter

#around #because #being #diet #due

The moonlight rained down on the beach as if to shine a spotlight on my solitude, and I wanted to cry out at it, ‘Why did you take her? You, surrounded by all of your twinkling stars and infinite wonders and darkness. There’s already enough beauty where you are. ↗

— Rachael Wade

#closure #death #denial #grief #loss

To many, Homer may appear lazy and a loser, but he's just much misguided. He's boorish, sure, but well meaning and, I guess, the one thing we have in common is the pursuit of lousy diets. ↗

— Dan Castellaneta

#common #diets #guess #homer #i

Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion. ↗

— Barbara Castle

#britain #economic #explosion #mess #oil

If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s. ↗

— Barbara Castle

#bad #economy #fighting #got #i

The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own. ↗

— Willa Cather

#another #been #close #dark #forest

What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose. ↗

— Willa Cather

#art #away #element #elusive #hurrying