#vita

The only constant in our marriage is the edge of the cliff we're hanging on to, killing time until we tire ourselves out and give in to our inevitable collapse. ↗

— Elizabeth Flock

#marriage #sad #seperation #marriage

A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social prestige of the art. ↗

— Charles Rosen

#also #art #attention #carefully #classical

The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses. ↗

— Edith Södergran

#inspiration #philosophy #vitality #inspirational

The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority. Any lessening of civil power over military power must inevitably lead away from democracy. ↗

— Harold Russell

#any #authority #away #civil #constitutional

Driving with one foot on the accelerator and the other on the brake is likely to get you nowhere, but certainly will burn out vital parts of your car. Similarly, cutting taxes on the middle class, but increasing them on the 'rich' is likely to result in an economic burnout. ↗

— Terry Savage

#brake #burn #burnout #car #certainly

I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. ↗

— Walter Anderson

#although #am #attitude #darken #happening

The sense of national catastrophe is inevitably heightened in a television age, when the whole country participates in it. ↗

— R. W. Apple, Jr.

#catastrophe #country #heightened #inevitably #national

I go out there and make a fool of myself. It's inevitable. ↗

— Armand Assante

#go #i #inevitable #make #myself

It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge. ↗

— Brooks Atkinson

#college education #education #five #knowledge #learn

In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life. ↗

— Albert Bandura

#inevitable #life #meet #need #obstacles