#sever

During the past three years spectacular progress has been made in increasing wheat, rice, and maize production in several of the most populous developing countries of southern Asia, where widespread famine appeared inevitable only five years ago. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

#appeared #asia #been #countries #developing

Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list. ↗

— Terry Brooks

#become #bestseller #books #del #did

On the other hand, I still approach each book with the same basic plan in mind - to put some people under severe stress and see how they hold up. ↗

— Terry Brooks

#basic #book #each #hand #hold

I find you write with one person in mind. Usually for me that one person is my wife, because she's my most severe critic and understands best what I'm trying to do. ↗

— Jonathan Carroll

#best #critic #find #i #me

There have been several Duchesses of Westminster but there is only one Chanel! ↗

— Coco Chanel

#chanel #only #several #westminster

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#come #despondency #everything #give #however

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#contracted #far #ills #mind #more

Several people have told me that one of the most meaningful events they could attend would be something at the White House with their children. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#children #could #events #house #me

Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god. ↗

— Derek Walcott

#been #body #centre #god #join

Every time I think I have something under control, it changes and I don't have it under control. I think it takes several years to get there. Jade is 19 months old, so right now I'm on alert all the time. And as a mom I think you're constantly worrying about things. ↗

— Giada De Laurentiis

#alert #changes #constantly #control #every