#wing

One of the things that bothers me most is the growing belief in the country that security is more important than freedom. It ain't. ↗

— Lyn Nofziger

#bothers #country #freedom #growing #important

The journey from teaching about love to allowing myself to be loved proved much longer than I realised. ↗

— Henri Nouwen

#allowing #i #journey #longer #love

It wasn't a good idea to work on 'Naked' in the first months of a marriage. I was living apart from my wife in a flat overflowing with books I was reading for the part. ↗

— David Thewlis

#books #first #flat #good #good idea

In a world where wealth is growing, you can get away with printing money. Doubling the debt over the next 20 years is not a problem. ↗

— Peter Thiel

#debt #doubling #get #growing #money

Your own barometer is all you have to go by, and often what makes a good director is knowing when not to say something. On occasions you can find yourself on a film set where the person who is wearing the director's hat is only trying to justify his position. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#director #film #film set #find #go

Some days you feel like this is really going well. You can tell. Other days, you're just drawing like a farmer and you don't know why. ↗

— Pat Oliphant

#drawing #farmer #feel #going #just

To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go. ↗

— Mary Oliver

#against #bones #comes #depends #go

Growing up in Israel, how can I not be an optimist? When you remember what Israel was 50 years ago and you see Israel now, one of the most successful countries in the world, stable, democratic, with an enormously stable economy despite everything that has happened in the global economy in the last few years, how can I not be an optimist? ↗

— Ehud Olmert

#countries #democratic #despite #economy #enormously

Since 1850, burning of fossil fuels, coal, oil and natural gas has increased 100 times to produce energy as the world has industrialized to serve the world's more than 6 billion and growing population. ↗

— John Olver

#burning #coal #energy #fossil #fossil fuels

It's an odd state to be in, blowing the whistle on your home country. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#country #home #odd #state #whistle