#owing

A ship's engine far away on the water expands the summer-night horizon. Both joy and sorrow swell in the dew's magnifying glass. Without really knowing, we divine; our life has a sister ship, following quietly another route. While the sun blazes behind the islands. ↗

— Tomas Transtromer

#away #behind #blazes #both #dew

We do have some assistance from the World Bank but not from the IMF. We are not borrowing yet, but we are considering, in the future, borrowing from the Kuwait Fund to support our infrastructure development. ↗

— Jose Ramos-Horta

#bank #borrowing #considering #development #fund

Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#corners #depth #expanse #explore #fences

There is a growing acceptance and interest in publicly funded school choice as a catalyst for education reform in general and a way to empower parents to be education reformers. ↗

— John T. Walton

#catalyst #choice #education #education reform #empower

I'm not Carl Lewis the athlete any more. I'm growing into a new person with new interests and new goals. ↗

— Carl Lewis

#athlete #carl #goals #growing #i

New York had a big influence on me growing up, and I was really part of the club scene - the Mudd Club and Studio 54. When you're living in New York, you are just bombarded with style, trying to figure out how to be cool and how to feel relaxed at the same time. ↗

— Dylan McDermott

#big influence #bombarded #club #club scene #cool

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#consists #degree #different #exerted #knowing

There’s nothing as significant as a human face. Nor as eloquent. We can never really know another person, except by our first glance at him. Because, in that glance, we know everything. Even though we’re not always wise enough to unravel the knowledge. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#understanding #wise

A lot of my work has to do with not allowing my characters to have an ego in a way that the stomach doesn't have an ego when it's wanting to throw up. It just does it. ↗

— Matthew Barney

#characters #does #ego #just #lot

Have you ever heard of a good marriage growing in front of the cameras? ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

#ever #front #good #good marriage #growing