#ten

The defense of our democracy against the forces that threaten it from without has made some of its failures to function at home glaringly apparent. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#apparent #defense #democracy #failures #forces

I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#corner #dining #had #i #jane

On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#booming #christ #church #clock #college

Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#convinced #die #existence #explanations #friends

Back when we were first making records, you didn't just make the music, you put a great deal of energy into the way it looked, and every word that was written on the whole thing. ↗

— Ann Wilson

#deal #energy #every #first #great

All I can do is listen to what my body needs and feels. ↗

— Carnie Wilson

#body needs #feels #i #i can #listen

I've always been a pretty hard worker. That's how I've written over a hundred books. ↗

— Colin Wilson

#been #books #hard #hard worker #how

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

And I used to listen to a lot of jazz. ↗

— Debra Wilson

#jazz #listen #lot #used

Unfortunately, in collective bargaining one party or the other too often tries to gain an advantage - a bargain, like buying something in a store for less than it is worth. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

#bargain #bargaining #buying #collective #collective bargaining