#aw

I've done a lot of things away from my homeland. ↗

— Compay Segundo

#done #homeland #i #lot #things

As a private lawyer, I could bill $750 an hour, but I don't. ↗

— Jay Alan Sekulow

#bill #could #hour #i #lawyer

We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time. But if we fail to do this, then unless we intend hereafter to violate the Constitution, we shall have a fugitive slave law in operation whenever the war is over. ↗

— Jay Alan Sekulow

#constitutionally #fail #fugitive #hereafter #intend

I used to pretend that I was Tom attacking Jerry, who was drawn on the ball. ↗

— Monica Seles

#ball #drawn #i #jerry #pretend

When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh. ↗

— Amartya Sen

#aimed #also #award #bangladesh #basic

I want to be alone and work until the day my heads hits the drawing table and I'm dead. Kaput. I feel very much like I want to be with my brother and sister again. They're nowhere. I know they're nowhere and they don't exist, but if nowhere means that's where they are, that's where I want to be. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#alone #brother #brother and sister #day #dead

It dawned on me that art was the way I could survive. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#could #dawned #i #me #survive

When I did 'Bumble-ardy,' I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did 'Bumble-ardy'. I did 'Bumble-ardy' to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live, as any human being does. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#aware #being #death #did #die

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#law #may #prohibit #restrain #shame

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#heard #live #men #saw #speak