#son

Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#example #impulse #life #person #precept

Bob Dylan's first couple of records in the 60's weren't considered cover records, but he only wrote one or two original songs on each album. ↗

— John Mellencamp

#bob #considered #couple #cover #dylan

There's no reason you should write any novel quickly. ↗

— John Irving

#no reason #novel #quickly #reason #should

My book centers in on the New Testament, the goal being to help a person who wants to understand the Bible to see how what God did as revealed in the New Testament will reveal to them their own personal story. ↗

— Max Lucado

#bible #book #centers #did #goal

'Ludacris' is something that I made up. It just kind of describes me. Sometimes I have like a split personality. Sometimes I'm cool, calm, and collected, and other times I'm beyond crazy. ↗

— Ludacris

#calm #collected #cool #crazy #describes

The United States cannot feed every person, lift every person out of poverty, cure every disease, or stop every conflict. But our power and status have conferred upon us a tremendous responsibility to humanity. ↗

— Richard Lugar

#conferred #conflict #cure #disease #every

I'm a very sympathetic person, but that doesn't always come across in my work because I'm too busy being mad at everything. ↗

— Lydia Lunch

#always #because #being #being mad #busy

It is acceptable to bring someone to tears if it explains to them in an emotional way why a product, a service, or a candidate is the right person, is the right thing to do. ↗

— Frank Luntz

#bring #candidate #emotional #explains #person

What matters most in politics is personality. It's not issues; it's not image. It's who you are and what you represent. ↗

— Frank Luntz

#issues #matters #most #personality #politics

A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#consciously #contemporaries #epoch #his #individual