#stop

He watches the sun out of the world and the stars into it and sometimes I wonder if he watches the sun come up again. Is it hard to sleep when you know you are almost at the end? Do you not want to miss a moment, even those that would otherwise seem dull and unremarkable? ↗

— Ally Condie

#dystopian #death

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. ↗

— Ingrid Bergman

#become #designed #kiss #lovely #nature

When people want to be liked for what they did, they should stop. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#fashion #karl-lagerfeld #people #stop #wisdom

The greatest guilt of today is that of people who accept collectivism by moral default; the people who seek protection from the necessity of taking a stand, by refusing to admit to themselves the nature of that which they are accepting; the people who support plans specifically designed to achieve serfdom, but hide behind the empty assertion that they are lovers of freedom, with no concrete meaning attached to the word; the people who believe that the content of ideas need not be examined, that principles need not be defined, and that facts can be eliminated by keeping one's eyes shut. They expect, when they find themselves in a world of bloody ruins and concentration camps, to escape moral responsibility by wailing: "But I didn't mean this! ↗

— Ayn Rand

#design

My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions. ↗

— Elayne Boosler

#ask #because #directions #even #forty

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#dreams #grow #old #people #pursuing

And I was having too much fun to stop now. ↗

— Jeff Lindsay

#stop #dreams

If failure is not an option, then neither is success. ↗

— Seth Godin

#dreams

Leadership isn't something that people hand to you. ... [i]t's a gradual process, one where you take responsibility years before you are given authority. And that's something we can teach. ↗

— Seth Godin

#dreams

You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling. ↗

— Eames

#inception-the-shooting-script #dreams