#si

I don't really remember my folks singing to us, but they read to us. ↗

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

#i #read #really #remember #singing

Thirteen thousand dollars a year is not enough to raise a family. That's not enough to pay your bills and save for their future. That's barely enough to provide for even the most basic needs. ↗

— Thomas Carper

#barely #basic #basic needs #bills #dollars

I mean, I'm in the business of storytelling, not message making. ↗

— John le Carre

#i #making #mean #message #storytelling

Because the development of inner calm & energy happens completely within & isn’t dependent on another person or a particular situation, we begin to feel a resourcefulness and independence that is quite beautiful—and a huge relief. ↗

— Sharon Salzberg

#compassion #inspiration #meditation #mindulness #beauty

Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence. ↗

— Emily Carr

#disorder #magnificence #ordered #perfectly

But the indisputable fact is, a huge percentage of Obama's voters are basically wards of the state. There are millions of them, and they have no intention of voting for anyone who might want them to ever go out and work for a living - 'no matter what.' ↗

— Howie Carr

#basically #ever #fact #go #huge

Journalism largely consists of saying "Lord Jones is Dead" to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#consists #dead #jones #journalism #knew

Art is basically made by dissatisfied people who are willing to find some means to relieve the dissatisfaction. ↗

— John Chamberlain

#basically #dissatisfaction #dissatisfied #find #made

A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it. ↗

— John le Carre

#experience #his #like #lives #mainstream

I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services. ↗

— John le Carre

#cold war #during #great #gripped #i