#aged

My parents encouraged thought. You'll get through life better if you learn how to think. ↗

— Holly Near

#encouraged #get #how #learn #life

Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'. ↗

— Barnett Newman

#any #art #death #life #man

City government can and must help San Franciscans prepare for emergencies in order to avoid tragedy where possible and minimize loss of life and property when emergencies occur. ↗

— Gavin Newsom

#city #city government #emergencies #franciscans #government

I was always in the popular crowd, but I really had atrocious teeth. I was encouraged to 'do well in school, 'cause no one's going to marry you!' ↗

— Gabrielle Union

#atrocious #cause #crowd #encouraged #going

So I did quit coffee and I did quit smoking. But I haven't managed that with drinking! ↗

— Sharon Olds

#did #drinking #haven #i #managed

Men who are engaged in public life must necessarily aim at reducing opposition to a minimum, and one of the most obvious means to that end is by misrepresenting, discrediting or ruining their opponents. ↗

— Frederick Scott Oliver

#end #engaged #life #means #men

The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass. ↗

— Laurence Olivier

#comedy #compass #disgust #drama #emotions

The calls that I have received from President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the fact that there are other people that are suffering every bit as much as I am, and that our whole nation is going through a tragedy together, I think we have to think about those things. ↗

— Ted Olson

#am #bit #bush #calls #cheney

Well, she managed to - Barbara was capable of doing practically anything if she set her mind to it. In retrospect, I'm not surprised that Barbara managed to get collect calls through. ↗

— Ted Olson

#barbara #calls #capable #collect #doing

You know, there is always times where you feel discouraged and things coming against you, but I don't know if I ever wanted to throw in the towel. ↗

— Joel Osteen

#always #coming #discouraged #ever #feel