#stead

She told me about the cop. And the movie star, and the construction worker. You're not having a life Michael, you're fucking the Village People one at a time ↗

— Armistead Maupin

#gay-literature #michael-tolliver #life

Thus it is said: The path into the light seems dark, the path forward seems to go back, the direct path seems long, true power seems weak, true purity seems tarnished, true steadfastness seems changeable, true clarity seems obscure, the greatest are seems unsophisticated, the greatest love seems indifferent, the greatest wisdom seems childish. The Tao is nowhere to be found. Yet it nourishes and completes all things. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#light #love #path #power #purity

Leaders do not sway with the polls. Instead, they sway the polls through their own words and actions. ↗

— Robert. L. Ehrlich

#instead #leaders #own #polls #sway

I would suggest maintaining a life and a career outside the Industry. This is a fickle business and a lousy one to make a steady living in, so it's important to have a good family, friends, job and education to fall back on. ↗

— Fred Savage

#business #career #education #fall #family

Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#class #division #dynamic #instead #into

This generation is so dead. You ask a kid, 'What are you doing this Saturday?' and they'll be playing video games or watching cable, instead of building model cars or airplanes or doing something creative. Kids today never say, 'Man, I'm really into remote-controlled steamboats.' ↗

— Jack White

#building #cable #cars #creative #dead

By that time I was hooked on a career in academic research instead of one in the pharmaceutical industry that I had originally considered in deciding to get a PhD. ↗

— Paul Berg

#career #considered #deciding #get #had

Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as I was no longer taken to school by the nurse, but instead had myself to protect my brother, two years my junior. ↗

— Georg Brandes

#brother #good #great #had #i

And I thought that was the best way for me to participate, because standing in the crowd and listening is a fantastic education, but it's not my nature. I need to be involved. So I did that instead. ↗

— Andre Braugher

#best #best way #crowd #did #education

I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#civil #get #give #government #i