#main

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#always #exciting #last #life #only

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#bad #being #bird #cannot #decent

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#cannot #careful #his #man #reading

We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and raise their kids here, that our seniors can remain in their homes and afford their health and pharmaceutical costs. ↗

— Carl Lewis

#cannot #costs #families #health #here

If you remain unsettled by a piece of writing, it means you are not watching the story from the outside; you've already taken a step towards it. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#means #outside #piece #remain #step

My main goal was to win all the belts, and I have done that. ↗

— Lennox Lewis

#done #goal #i #main #main goal

Zhang Yimou is one of the best directors on mainland China. ↗

— Jet Li

#china #directors #mainland #yimou #zhang

The mainstream media today has the biggest disconnect with its audience that it's ever, ever had. And as the disconnect grows and as more and more people distrust them, then the media digs in more and more and says you don't know what you're talking about, you don't know how we do our jobs, you don't know what's important. ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

#audience #biggest #digs #disconnect #distrust

Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist. ↗

— Maya Lin

#architecture #artist #build #buildings #deliberately

After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith; they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

#after #armed #defeat #desperate #exile