#sin

It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#america #arts #business #easier #europe

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul. ↗

— Alphonse de Lamartine

#give #glance #had #istanbul #should

Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day. ↗

— Alphonse de Lamartine

#habit #iron #leads #sinews #us

You have a career, and you start as a business person. And you work your way, you reach this peak, and you know the time's going to come when you go back down. ↗

— Miranda Lambert

#business #business person #career #come #down

If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#blessings #crystal #desert #die #gospel

May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare; that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#blanks #children #education #enormous #facts

Mankind are divided into sects, and individuals think very differently on religious subjects, from the purest motives; and that gracious common Parent, who loves all his children alike, beholds with approbation every one who worships him in sincerity. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#approbation #beholds #children #common #differently

The sincere teachers of their youth should be met, not with an intention to dictate to them, but to give additional force to their well-meant endeavours, and raise them to public esteem. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#dictate #esteem #force #give #intention

There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#delight #hear #none #singer #singing

I'm fighting for small businesses. I'm not fighting for big oil. Don't be confused. And there are thousands of businesses in this state that are at great risk. Meanwhile, the country keeps guzzling the oil, but we're out of work down here. We need to get back to work to build this region, and we intend to do so. ↗

— Mary Landrieu

#big #big oil #build #businesses #confused