#above

China has not established the rule of law and if there is a power above the law there is no social justice. Everybody can be subjected to harm. I'm just a citizen: my life is equal in value to any other. But I'm thankful that when I lost my freedom so many people shared feelings and put such touching effort into helping me. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#any #china #citizen #effort #equal

There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#daily #destiny #easily #imagination #level

That's what my Dad always told me, on the ballot, they should always have a third choice, like none of the above, then if enough people picked that, they'd have to get new candidates. ↗

— Meg White

#always #ballot #candidates #choice #dad

Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool. ↗

— Esther Williams

#character #develop #discipline #first #girl

For a country is not merely a piece of earth; it is, above all, a compendium of social, cultural, and historical factors which begin to acquire sense and order through the process of writing. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#acquire #begin #country #cultural #earth

In short, the animal and vegetable lines, diverging widely above, join below in a loop. ↗

— Asa Gray

#animal #below #join #lines #loop

Weather is uncontrollable. Only the Lord above can control the weather. Whatever we get, we have to work with. ↗

— Maurice Greene

#control #get #lord #only #uncontrollable

If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#approve #commit #die #kids #marry

The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#depends #power #rapist #silence #women

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#achieve #children #compassion #great #hope