#world

The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world. ↗

— Willa Cather

#behind #cloak #down #due #edge

To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it - this is a hard lesson. ↗

— Bruce Catton

#deal #demand #entitled #get #going

There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#grandmother #old #only #say #two

American education is still the wonder of the world, and we must open the schoolhouse doors, not close them. ↗

— Lincoln Chafee

#close #doors #education #must #open

If the work of art is to continue pursuing the vision of both being in and of the world but nevertheless in some fashion being more than just one more object to the mounting clutter, this is the specific point, I think, where this must be assured. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#assured #being #both #clutter #continue

I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world. ↗

— Steve Case

#arts education #changing #education #general #i

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on. ↗

— Richard Cecil

#ardent #break #make #pieces #self-will

A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#public #sin #world

Hence my obstinate emphasis on stylistic continuity from work to work rather than specific sibling relationships between the individual work and other members of its stylistic 'family' in the world outside. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#continuity #emphasis #family #hence #individual

I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success. ↗

— Abel Ferrara

#done #film #get #i #success