#ow

You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish. ↗

— Ralph Steadman

#because #destroying #force #know #making

A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#how #like #made #might #novel

Children learn much more from how you act than from what you tell them. There are times this worries me - we parents are rarely the role models we want to be. True for life. True for driving. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#children #driving #how #learn #life

When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#camp #could #counsellor #eight #far

We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill... it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress. ↗

— Li Ka Shing

#approaching #broader #cannot #capabilities #constructive

I'd never had money growing up, and it's never been that important to me, except maybe to take our kids on a nice vacation or something like that. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#except #growing #growing up #had #i

The Coast Guard has long been known as the armed service that gets more done for less. ↗

— Howard Coble

#been #coast #coast guard #done #gets

You can't have an up without a down, a right without a left, a back without a front - or a happy without a sad. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#down #front #happy #left #right

Vision is perhaps our greatest strength... it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown. ↗

— Li Ka Shing

#centuries #continuity #future #greatest #greatest strength

Lesbianism is so rampant in some of the schools in southeast Oklahoma that they'll only let one girl go to the bathroom. Now think about it. Think about that issue. How is it that that's happened to us? ↗

— Tom Coburn

#bathroom #girl #go #happened #how