#stan

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#today #understand #want #yesterday #you

Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#carnival #constant #everything #left

I have long been convinced that my artistic ideal stands or falls with Germany. Only the Germany that we love and desire can help us achieve that ideal. ↗

— Richard Wagner

#artistic #been #convinced #desire #falls

I'm trying to focus on the 100 and 200 breaststroke now. There's no point concentrating on the 50 when it's not in the Olympics. I'm not going to quit the 50 but it's not my priority any more. I'll do it but as part of my bid for gold at the other distances. ↗

— Cameron van der Burgh

#bid #concentrating #distances #focus #going

The jarring change going from an urban environment to an extremely remote natural environment is extremely inspiring. It's constantly stimulating, it's like a slap in the face. ↗

— Carter Burwell

#constantly #environment #extremely #face #going

Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men. ↗

— Lord Byron

#men #seems

Britain is no longer one of the world's price setters. It is painful. It is a challenge to us in government to explain all that, and it is a pity that the political class is not preparing the public for it to understand how massive the problem is. ↗

— Vince Cable

#challenge #class #explain #government #how

I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

#betrayed #constantly #deceived #i #life

The distance is great from the firm belief to the realization from concrete experience. ↗

— Isabella I

#concrete #distance #experience #firm #great

As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence. ↗

— Alex Campbell

#concerned #consequence #convertible #excellence #into