#structure

Retirement is a work in progress. I try to figure out my day, and what I know about myself is that I need structure. ↗

— Pete Sampras

#day #figure #i #know #myself

Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature. ↗

— Phyllis Schlafly

#based #because #doomed #failure #feminism

You can be bound by physical things, as I am by certain sicknesses, but nevertheless you can still be free to recognize that all initiatives really come from yourself if you don't depend upon structures of government or structures of any kind. ↗

— George Woodcock

#any #bound #certain #come #depend

What the semicolon's anxious supporters fret about is the tendency of contemporary writers to use a dash instead of a semicolon and thus precipitate the end of the world. Are they being alarmist? ↗

— Lynne Truss

#english-language #grammar #humor #lynne-truss #punctuation

Always think extra hard before crossing over to a bad side, if you were weak enough to cross over, you may not be strong enough to cross back! ↗

— Victoria Addino

#pier-pressure #positive-thinking #strength #structure #struggles

Furthermore, order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#body #condition #function #furthermore #laborers

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#about #begin #being #construct #deeper

It's possible to become so comfortable with one's style and structure that one ceases to grow. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#ceases #comfortable #grow #possible #structure

When approved, the SAFE Port Act will make progress toward protecting the physical infrastructure of our seaports as well as our national economy which is so clearly dependent on the commercial shipping business. ↗

— Lucille Roybal-Allard

#approved #business #clearly #commercial #dependent

Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to the next, but at the same time, you have to be spontaneous and take requests and change the set list at the drop of a hat. ↗

— Billie Joe Armstrong

#change #come #drop #go #going