#work

I wanted to make a point of basing myself at home, being close to my family. I'll never be able to repay Mum and Dad for what they did, but at least they know they'll never have to work another day. I'll do whatever it takes to look after them. ↗

— Rory McIlroy

#after #another #another day #basing #being

The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas. ↗

— Malcolm Mclaren

#canvas #like #pistols #were #work

Cynically but accurately put, Americans oppose public intervention or regulation if it helps others, but favor it if it helps them - take social security, disaster relief, public works projects, for example. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#cynically #disaster #example #favor #for example

If heaven is understood more as God's space on earth than as an ethereal region apart from the essential reality we know, then what happens on earth matters even more than we think, for the Christian life becomes a continuation of the unfolding work of Jesus, who will one day return to set the world to rights. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#becomes #christian #christian life #continuation #day

Here is a pretty good rule of thumb for Democratic Presidents: if it didn't work for Franklin D. Roosevelt, who won four terms and a World War, it probably won't work for you either. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#either #four #franklin #good #here

It would be great if politics were fact-based, but it is not, and it is surely not nuance-based. What works in a classroom or a think tank does not work on Capitol Hill or in the White House. Obama sometimes seems to be running the Brookings Institution, not the country. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#capitol hill #classroom #country #does #great

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#arbitrary #childhood #cruelly #false #into

I learned the value of hard work by working hard. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#hard work #i #learned #value #work

Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#mediocre #mediocre men #men #possible #want

Censors are energetic and righteous people but they just couldn't work a room like Abbe Lane. ↗

— Audrey Meadows

#energetic #just #lane #like #people