#wi

For the youth, the indignation of most things will just surge as each birthday passes. ↗

— Chris Evans

#each #indignation #just #most #passes

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. ↗

— Vince Lombardi

#between #difference #knowledge #lack #others

Look at pictures of me growing up. It wasn't always the way it is now. It was a bumpy road for me. ↗

— Chris Evans

#growing #growing up #look #me #now

I was this guy who'd been racing around down there, on that field in 1999, running straight over people, scoring tries, winning games, having fun. And I ended up so sick I couldn't even run past a little baby. ↗

— Jonah Lomu

#baby #been #down #ended #even

Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity. ↗

— Robert Evans

#constrain #creativity #depress #designed #exclusively

Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send forth to labor, and teach their children to enter the workshops or handle the plow, and you will thus humble proud traitors. ↗

— Thaddeus Stevens

#children #enter #estates #forth #handle

I drove across country in my yellow 1970 VW bug (which I drove until 1986) to Los Angeles, having had enough cold weather in 5 years in Ann Arbor, and found a job within a few days. ↗

— W. Richard Stevens

#angeles #ann #bug #cold #cold weather

All things come round to him who will but wait. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#come #him #round #things #wait

How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so very closely, my own detestable mother? ↗

— Gabrielle Hamilton

#becoming-your-parents #family #growing-up #humor #parents

I don't care what is written," Meyer Landsman says. "I don't care what supposedly got promised to some sandal-wearing idiot whose claim to fame is that he was ready to cut his own son's throat for the sake of a hare-brained idea. I don't care about red heifers and patriarchs and locusts. A bunch of old bones in the sand. My homeland is in my hat. It's in my ex-wife's tote bag. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#home #identity #jewish #nationality #religion