#orc

We now live in a world where the only thing to have is success, but failure is marvelous. It's fertiliser, it's like living fertiliser, because you're forced on yourself. ↗

— Rupert Everett

#failure #forced #like #live #living

But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse of one of the fundamental forces of existence, whose votary I was destined to be for life - namely, Beauty. ↗

— Georg Brandes

#caught #destined #existence #first #forces

The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a brick wall, but once we got into it, we found that, remarkably, the balloon went whatever speed the wind went. ↗

— Richard Branson

#balloon #brick #brick wall #force #found

That's the conundrum of cartoon stripping, as opposed to political cartoons. When your anger is the driving force of your drawing hand, failure follows. The anger is OK, but it has to serve the interests of the heart, frankly. ↗

— Berkeley Breathed

#cartoon #cartoons #drawing #driving #driving force

I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading. ↗

— Vera Brittain

#believed #break #break up #court #divorced

Divorced men are more likely to meet their car payments than their child support obligations. ↗

— Susan Faludi

#child #child support #divorced #likely #meet

Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to choose between public justice and private happiness. ↗

— Susan Faludi

#asks #basic #between #choose #feminism

The media and the rest of popular culture weren't recording people's reactions to 9/11; they were forcing made-up reactions down people's throats. ↗

— Susan Faludi

#down #forcing #media #people #popular

The women's movement hit my neighborhood like a freight train. Everybody got divorced. You wonder what would have happened to women if the suburbs hadn't been built. ↗

— Susan Faludi

#built #divorced #everybody #freight #got

What happened with Hurricane Katrina was the American electorate was forced to look at what lay behind the veneer of chest-beating. We all saw the consequences of having terrible government leadership. ↗

— Susan Faludi

#behind #consequences #electorate #forced #government