#selves

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read. ↗

— Alice Walker

#could #creative #flower #grandmothers #handed

We are all here to be a service to those who can't be a service to themselves. We can give people hope and more reasons for being human. ↗

— Dionne Warwick

#being human #give #here #hope #human

If you present good government, then elections look after themselves. ↗

— Jay Weatherill

#elections #good #good government #government #look

There are guys in the game only because of steroids. They couldn't make it with their natural talent, so they had to enhance themselves. It sucks. ↗

— David Wells

#enhance #game #guys #had #make

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#between #done #hand #made #measure

When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad. ↗

— E. B. White

#beyond #bury #child #deep #happy

Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great. ↗

— Edmund White

#biography #forms #great #judgment #little

Among the many reasons assignable for the sad decay of true Christianity, perhaps the neglecting to assemble ourselves together, in religious societies, may not be one of the least. ↗

— George Whitefield

#assemble #christianity #decay #least #many

Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#angry #anyone #dares #grow #live

Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does. ↗

— Tony Wilson

#does #enjoy #jazz #jazz musicians #last