#other

I don't think I would have been a writer if I hadn't been a mother. I wanted to construct something that contained some of these feelings that I had, some of these discoveries or revelations. ↗

— Carol Shields

#construct #contained #discoveries #feelings #had

Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician; the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand - the one doing the important job - unnoticed. ↗

— David K. Shipler

#doing #dramatic #drawn #eye #flourishes

You go through publicists because it's easy for a publicist to say to another publicist, "No". ↗

— Martin Short

#because #easy #go #publicist #publicists

But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them. ↗

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

#ceased #elsewhere #exist #french #had

Privacy about giving is counterproductive. There is solid scientific research showing that people are more likely to give if they can see that others are giving. The richest people, in particular, should be setting an example. ↗

— Peter Singer

#counterproductive #example #give #giving #likely

A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves. ↗

— Sivananda

#arises #between #calm #comes #complete

I've been an atheist since I was nine years old. And my mom is really religious, so we have a strange relationship. But if my mother was right, what would be the reason that the gods could let anything bad happen in the world? ↗

— Tarsem Singh

#atheist #bad #been #could #gods

Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get it. ↗

— Vijay Singh

#another #best #best way #get #golf

There are some strong female performers out there. But the industry's pre-occupation with the packaging of how a woman looks has gone completely the other way, back to almost the 60s, early 70s. ↗

— Siouxsie Sioux

#back #completely #early #female #gone

If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story. ↗

— Kate Smith

#done #kind #lyrics #music #nothing