#vera

When something really bad is going on in a culture, the average guy doesn't see it. He can't. He's average and is surrounded by and immersed in the cant and discourse of the status quo. ↗

— George Saunders

#average guy #bad #cant #culture #discourse

For me the writing, when I'm going to direct it myself, is really just the first draft, and I don't change it very much; I only change it on average about two lines per movie. ↗

— John Sayles

#average #change #direct #draft #first

As long as the opposition believes the world will stand with Ukraine's democrat reformers, they will have the leverage and the courage to establish a legitimate republic under the leadership of Viktor Yushchenko. ↗

— Bob Schaffer

#courage #democrat #establish #leadership #legitimate

As much as I'd like to think I'm a really good designer, I'm average. ↗

— Curt Schilling

#designer #good #i #like #much

By working hard we could make an average of about $5 a week. We would have made more but had to provide our own machines, which cost us $45, we paying for them on the installment plan. We paid $5 down and $1 a month after that. ↗

— Rose Schneiderman

#after #average #cost #could #down

Then came a big strike. About 100 girls went out. The result was a victory, which netted us - I mean the girls - $2 increase in our wages on the average. ↗

— Rose Schneiderman

#average #big #came #i #increase

By perseverance the snail reached the ark. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#perseverance #reached #snail

The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is. ↗

— Robert H. Schuller

#average man #different #hardest #man #something

And I'll tell you, honestly, folks that I talk to, the 2.5 million breast cancer survivors in America, that I am one of, understand that we're done with insurance companies dropping us or denying us coverage because of - because we have a preexisting condition. ↗

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#america #because #breast cancer #cancer #companies

So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall. ↗

— Charles Schumer

#better #education #go #i #i think