#ought

I never thought of stopping, and I just hated sleeping. I can't imagine having a better life. ↗

— Barbara McClintock

#better life #hated #having #i #imagine

To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is. ↗

— David McCullough

#art #being #civic #enlargement #experience

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#his #man #new #original #serve

We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother. ↗

— Maya Lin

#brother #brought #differentiation #gender #i

If the Founding Fathers and other patriots who fought during the Revolutionary War could see the United States today, I believe they would be proud of the path that the thirteen colonies, now fifty strong states, have taken since then. ↗

— John Linder

#colonies #could #during #fathers #fifty

They thought we were going to hurt the game, but we just wanted to help ourselves, because the players needed to get together to protect their interests. ↗

— Ted Lindsay

#game #get #get together #going #help

Well, I guess that early 12 string. The first Martin I bought. I bought it around 1957 with money I earned as a janitor assistant. I bought brand new. I still have that. ↗

— Roger McGuinn

#assistant #bought #brand #brand new #early

Actually, if I could find a woman who was that wonderful; that understanding, well, I'd give her everything in the world that was in my power to give. And, I'd love her more than I ever thought it possible to love any woman. ↗

— James MacArthur

#any #could #ever #everything #find

Everybody generalizes from one example. At least, I do. ↗

— Steven Brust

#humor

When you concentrate your energy purposely on the future possibility that you aspire to realize, your energy is passed on to it and makes it attracted to you with a force stronger than the one you directed towards it. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money #motivational #new-age