#stan

We're going in really fresh. We're going to have fresh legs and bodies, we're going to be able to stay the distance, and that's our goal. ↗

— Serena Williams

#bodies #distance #fresh #goal #going

For time is the longest distance between two places. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#distance #longest #places #time #two

I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#any #bulb #i #i can #light

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#distant #misery #our #relation #sympathy

Losses have propelled me to even bigger places, so I understand the importance of losing. You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner. It's in any game that you're in - a business game or whatever - you can't get complacent. ↗

— Venus Williams

#any #around #because #bigger #business

Life presents itself in constantly changing ways, but you're able to accept the challenges, rather than recoil, throw up your hands, and go on a binge. ↗

— Carnie Wilson

#accept #binge #challenges #changing #constantly

If workmen are denied any increase in real wages and they can look forward only to a better standard of living through reduction of prices, progress for them is terribly slow, and they become impatient and dissatisfied. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

#become #better #denied #dissatisfied #forward

There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures, the standard of living has to be drastically reduced, but this certainly is not the case in our prosperous nations. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

#backward #case #certainly #countries #crop

We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#come #every #humanity #learn #means

America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of living but it comes at enormous cost. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#burden #comes #cost #enormous #horrendous