#til

After saying yes to Turkey, the EU is having difficulty finding clear and consistent grounds for saying no to other, still more remote candidates - but being in the general vicinity of Europe does seem to be a continuing requirement. ↗

— Timothy Garton Ash

#being #candidates #clear #consistent #continuing

I am thrilled to be 31, still running and having my daughter watch me even if it is on TV. ↗

— Evelyn Ashford

#daughter #even #having #i #i am

The laws are still very unclear. Cells are still taken from people without consent - a lot of people don't realize it. ↗

— Rebecca Skloot

#consent #laws #lot #people #realize

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#age #apt #class #class distinctions #democratic

I started at the age of 8 and have been lucky to be still working. ↗

— Mackenzie Astin

#been #i #lucky #started #still

Insanity comes in two basic varieties: slow and fast... Viscosity and Velocity are opposites, yet they can look the same. Viscosity causes the stillness of disinclination; velocity causes the stillness of fascination. An observer can't tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled, or because inner life is transfixingly busy. ↗

— Susanna Kaysen

#insanity #stillness #velocity #viscosity #business

I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the '50s and '60s. The seed of my interest was planted when I was about 12 years old and took over my mother's Morris Minor. I drove it around my father's farm. But my favorite car is still a McLaren F1, which I have had for 10 years. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#around #car #drove #enjoy #f1

Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children. ↗

— Joe Baca

#been #catholic #catholic schools #children #education

I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#africa #china #dear #i #jumps

All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#art #artist #believes #comes #commissioned