#though

Nashville has a formula, and it works a lot of the time, but it wasn't right for me. They're afraid to step outside the box - even though, with me, my success came because I was outside of the box to begin with. ↗

— Deana Carter

#because #begin #box #came #even

With my first two husbands, I always kinda sensed they thought there was something wrong with me. Maybe I was too flighty or whatever. ↗

— Dixie Carter

#first #husbands #i #i always #kinda

In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer. ↗

— Elliott Carter

#being #case #composer #encouraged #even

...the long train ride was like traveling through limbo. You weren't anywhere when you were on a train, she decided. You weren't where you had been, and you weren't yet where you were going. You were nowhere. It might be beautiful outside the window-and it was, she had sense enough to realize that-but it wasn't anywhere to her, just a scene passing by that was framed by the train window. (p160) ↗

— Katherine Paterson

#beauty

I just went and got an agent because I thought I can create my own world - you can't right your own life, but you can escape to a world where you can have control. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#because #control #create #escape #got

When our thoughts - which bring actions - are filled with hate against anyone, Negro or white, we are in a living hell. That is as real as hell will ever be. ↗

— George Washington Carver

#against #anyone #bring #ever #filled

And though hard be the task, 'Keep a stiff upper lip'. ↗

— Phoebe Cary

#keep #lip #stiff #task #though

I remember people who'd had a lot of hardship during the war. They'd thought we'd won. ↗

— Barbara Castle

#had #hardship #i #i remember #lot

In such misfortunes my Mother was of an heroic spirit, in suffering patiently when there was no remedy, and being industrious where she thought she could help. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

#could #help #heroic #industrious #misfortunes

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist. ↗

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#exist #limits #men #men and women #our