#lot

We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise. ↗

— Raquel Welch

#childhood dream #compromise #dream #everything #goes

The system that had grown up in most states is that wealthy districts with an affluent population can afford to spend a lot more on their public school systems than the poorer districts. ↗

— William Weld

#afford #districts #grown #had #lot

All the characters and plots were predetermined. Games make bad plots. ↗

— Margaret Weis

#characters #games #make #plots #predetermined

I'm very successful and do lots of films but I've never actually done anything extraordinary. ↗

— Rachel Weisz

#anything #done #extraordinary #films #i

The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

#ballot box #box #civil #civil rights #freedom

Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There's a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#background #culture #deeper #deeper level #get

When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#constantly #cultural #fiction #history #i

Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle. ↗

— Mary Wesley

#battle #brave #braver #bring #children

A lot of people stop short. They don't actually die but they say, 'Right I'm old, and I'm going to retire,' and then they dwindle into nothing. They go off to Florida and become jolly boring. ↗

— Mary Wesley

#become #boring #die #florida #go

Of course risk-taking does not always pay off, but it's a lot of fun! ↗

— Mary Wesley

#course #does #fun #lot #off