#then

Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has. ↗

— Mary J. Blige

#caught #depressed #die #down #ear

I want to do good work, but having kids and a life outside of that is important, too. If you don't have anybody around who loves you, then what's it all for? You're just lonely in the end. ↗

— Josh Duhamel

#around #end #good #good work #having

So I constantly play women who are damaged and out of touch, who are seeking without knowing, or knowing without the skills to transform their lives. But then, that's really the fate of many women today. ↗

— Olympia Dukakis

#damaged #fate #i #knowing #lives

But I would say if the Security Council is only relevant if it agrees with the United States, then we have come a long way in a direction that I do not like very much. ↗

— Hans Blix

#council #direction #i #i do #like

I think that we have to do our job well, investigate thoroughly and then describe very honestly what we see to the Security Council. And some of the things might please people there and other things may not please the people. ↗

— Hans Blix

#describe #honestly #i #i think #investigate

Like I said, I'm more worried long term about the environmental issues then the use of arms. ↗

— Hans Blix

#arms #environmental #environmental issues #i #issues

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. ↗

— Isadora Duncan

#any #consequences #contract #deserves #goes

Research shows that children do better in school and are less likely to drop out when fathers are involved. Engaged parents can strengthen communities, mentor and tutor students, and demonstrate through their actions how much they value their children's education. ↗

— Arne Duncan

#better #children #communities #demonstrate #drop

Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#deeds #form #great #life #lived

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#books #both #failure #fatal #good