#met

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#exist #feel #greater #island #just

You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that's something that we should think about. ↗

— Alice Walker

#dies #know #other #race #should

You know when you throw a party, you think people will show up and no one will like each other. It's like that with music - parts of your musical psyche have never met other parts. You wonder if you should get them together. ↗

— Tom Waits

#get #know #like #met #music

Suddenly, the screens were dominated by American entertainment to the extent of something like 95 percent. As a result, audiences turned away from the kinds of films that we used to make. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

#audiences #away #dominated #entertainment #extent

Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#language #love #sometimes #spoken #today

Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#context #cultural #distinctly #ethnic #gender

Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole. ↗

— Derek Walcott

#fragments #granted #love #stronger #symmetry

Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic. ↗

— Derek Walcott

#attempt #serious #something #try #worthwhile

A scientist is in a sense a learned small boy. There is something of the scientist in every small boy. Others must outgrow it. Scientists can stay that way all their lives. ↗

— George Wald

#every #learned #lives #must #others

The core of Wikipedia is something people really believe in. That is too valuable for the world to screw it up. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#core #people #really #screw #something