#ows

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows. ↗

— Paul Eldridge

#brought #committed #crimes #escape #few

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load. ↗

— Queen Elizabeth II

#individual #lessons #life #load #our

The intellectual who wants to do her work properly must today go back to the starting point: the woman whom she knows, and first of all to herself. It is at that level, and at no other, that she ought to begin to think about the world situation. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

#back #begin #first #first of all #go

You learn a lot more from the lows because it makes you pay attention to what you're doing. ↗

— John Elway

#because #doing #learn #lot #lows

Nothing that's forced can ever be right, if it doesn't come naturally, leave it. ↗

— Al Stewart

#boxing #fellows #fight #fighters #floyd

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time. ↗

— Ernst Fischer

#business #buy #calm #drowsy #get

I have to work really hard, eight shows a week, to get a nice check as an actor. But when I write a play, and it's a - knock wood - hit, the checks come in for many years. ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

#check #checks #come #eight #get

But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still. ↗

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

#am #cannot #choose #close #concrete

I'm obsessed with cooking shows, even though they make everything look so easy when it isn't. ↗

— Joely Fisher

#easy #even #everything #i #look

We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays. ↗

— Aulus Persius Flaccus

#consume #fretting #our #tomorrows #yesterdays