#pat

A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician or any other of thousands of things, because it offers no security, it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no "future". ↗

— Henry M. Wriston

#dreams #economics #education #jobs #occupations

Most Italians who came to this country are very patriotic. There was this exciting possibility that if you worked real hard, and you loved something, you could become successful. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#become #came #could #country #exciting

I wrote the script of Patton. I had this very bizarre opening where he stands up in front of an American flag and gives this speech. Ultimately, I was fired. When the script was done, they hired another writer and that script was forgotten. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#american flag #another #bizarre #done #fired

One often calms one's grief by recounting it. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#calms #grief #often #recounting

When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#applied #disease #his #how #loves

But last year there were 540,000 people, roughly, detained coming across the border illegally. Forty-five thousand of them came from countries other than Mexico, demonstrating the fact that Mexico itself now is a pathway into the United States for people all around the world, and we don't know what their intentions are. ↗

— John Cornyn

#around #border #came #coming #countries

France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside. ↗

— Gustave Courbet

#france #nation #numbers #only #patrons

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#consequences #consists #wisdom

It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much of the time - until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form. ↗

— Hart Crane

#assured #been #deal #difficult #energy

First you wonder if they're separate stories, but no, they're not, they're contingent stories and they form a pattern. And you begin with some of the island as the place to which the heroine of the book returns. ↗

— Robert Creeley

#book #contingent #first #form #heroine