#course

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life. ↗

— Epicurus

#directed #greatest #highest #his #interests

No one will ever know what I went through to secure those negatives. The world can never appreciate it. It changed the whole course of my life. ↗

— Mathew Brady

#changed #course #ever #i #know

The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever. ↗

— David Bowie

#either #ethical #hard #humanists #immortal

Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again. ↗

— Barbara Boxer

#alive #course #died #earthquake #francisco

I studied English literature in the honors program, which means that you had to take courses in various centuries. You had to start with Old English, Middle English, and work your way toward the modern. I figured if I did that it would force me to read some of the things I might not read on my own. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#courses #did #english #english literature #figured

And then, when I went into the Navy, there was no choice. You took about half of the hours during your naval training as naval courses and the other half were engineering. ↗

— Daniel J. Evans

#choice #courses #during #engineering #half

By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one. ↗

— Clifton Fadiman

#course #educated #end #high #high school

Hence a ship is said to head the sea, when her course is opposed to the setting or direction of the surges. ↗

— William Falconer

#direction #head #hence #her #opposed

Basically he never went to work and didn't have a job. Of course I thought he did. I thought he was on the phone doing business deals instead of borrowing money from people. ↗

— Christie Brinkley

#borrowing #business #course #deals #did

Yet the home courses are where you spend dozens to hundreds of hours a year. You must choose them well. ↗

— Joe Henderson

#courses #dozens #home #hours #hundreds