#mate

And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written. ↗

— Mark Strand

#comforts #culture #entertainment #forms #given

In nuclear war all men are cremated equal. ↗

— Dexter Gordon

#equal #men #nuclear #nuclear war #war

Depending on what day of the week it is and what time of the month it is, I'm a good friend or not a good friend. I'm more or less a good mom or not a good mom, more or less a good mate or not a good mate. That's just life, whether or not you're public. ↗

— Amy Grant

#depending #friend #good #good friend #good mom

The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#aim #ego #see #something #ultimate

The prices of raw materials do not fluctuate directly with the labour cost of producing them. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

#directly #fluctuate #labour #materials #prices

People can tell you what to do, but ultimately, we're all going to die, so how do you want to live? ↗

— Nicole Kidman

#going #how #live #people #tell

I was already on pole, then by half a second and then one second and I just kept going. Suddenly I was nearly two seconds faster than anybody else, including my team mate with the same car. ↗

— Ayrton Senna

#anybody #car #else #faster #going

An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint. ↗

— Ben Shahn

#enable #him #himself #jobs #outside

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#between #chasm #creator #every #experiences

Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement. ↗

— Claude M. Bristol

#discoveries #gain #great #inventions #material