#red

Of course, if this season turns out to be terrible for me - if I get injured again and this prevents me from reaching a satisfying level, then I could change my decision again. But at this moment, it absolutely feels like the right thing for me to continue through 2003. ↗

— Laurent Jalabert

#again #change #continue #could #course

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way. ↗

— William James

#endured #fashioned #habitually #hell #hereafter

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake. ↗

— William James

#compared #half #ought

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them. ↗

— William James

#challenges #credit #fact #in fact #just

Anybody who spends time off of Louisiana's shores can recognize that these oysters are not endangered. To classify them as such risks great harm to not only fishermen who make their living collecting oysters in the Gulf, but also to Louisiana's economy in total. ↗

— Bobby Jindal

#anybody #classify #collecting #economy #endangered

At Home in the World is the story of a young woman, raised in some difficult circumstances, and how she survives. It tells a story of redemption, not victimhood. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#difficult #difficult circumstances #home #how #raised

I wonder what it is that the people who criticize me for telling this story truly object to: is it that I have dared to tell the story? Or that the story turns out not to be the one they wanted to hear? ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#dared #hear #i #i wonder #me

I also don't have organized religion on Pern. I figured - since there were four holy wars going on at the time of writing - that religion was one problem Pern didn't need. ↗

— Anne McCaffrey

#figured #four #going #holy #i

Truth uttered before its time is always dangerous. ↗

— Mencius

#before #dangerous #time #truth #uttered

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#distinctly #effect #general #happiest #impression