#wards

I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business. ↗

— Randy Travis

#awards #business #having #i #just

And trust, yes, which is important, but that is what I aim towards. Now that is difficult for some people, and with that desire to get things as good as possible, I would say that I'm probably regarded as quite prickly to work with. ↗

— Jeremy Irons

#desire #difficult #get #good #i

Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax; government transfer payments have become less progressive. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#become #conventional #conventional wisdom #federal #government

My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests. ↗

— George Santayana

#denies #fashioned #gods #human #image

Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much. ↗

— George Santayana

#expect #much #other #philosophers #severe

I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds. That's really about it - I don't gravitate towards it, I try to move away from it. ↗

— Joey Santiago

#away #go #gravitate #i #like

Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

#attitude #conditions #definite #despised #forced

Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

#directed #grammar #henceforth #language #longer

My habit would have been to veer towards the dark - to prove I was something; edgy, or maybe to prove that I was cognisant of the dark side. Now, with age and confidence, I can say, yeah, that's true, but I am cognisant of the fact that people can do things well. And can be more loving than you expect. ↗

— George Saunders

#am #been #confidence #dark #dark side

And in this community, as in all others, the Golden Rule still applies - we must be act toward other nations as we would have them act towards America. ↗

— Adam Schiff

#america #applies #community #golden #golden rule