#covering

My first hero, as a teenager, was James Connolly. I remember discovering that he was a feminist, and that was an eye-opener, coming from a man of such poverty. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#discovering #feminist #first #hero #i

I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

#could #discovering #dozen #ever #half

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering. ↗

— Steven Soderbergh

#always #like #lying #recovering #you

As a species, taking all in all, we are still too young, too juvenile, to be trusted. We have spread across the face of the earth in just a few thousand years, no time at all as evolution clocks time, covering all livable parts of the planet, endangering other forms of life, and now threatening ourselves. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#clocks #covering #earth #endangering #evolution

Very few recognize science as the high adventure it really is, the wildest of all explorations ever taken by human beings, the chance to glimpse things never seen before, the shrewdest maneuver for discovering how the world works. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#before #beings #chance #discovering #ever

I'd never played a cop before, and this particular role with what she is going thru, especially during the first season, covering her alcoholism to her on the job performance, was a great opportunity for me as an actress. ↗

— Nancy McKeon

#alcoholism #before #cop #covering #during

Loneliness is designed to help you discover who you are…and to stop looking outside yourself for your worth. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#discovering-who-you-are #feeling-alone #finding-yourself #happiness #happiness-comes-from-within

When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn't be any press without the censorship. ↗

— Kate Adie

#any #british #censorship #covering #fact

Recently released government economic statistics covering 2010, the first year of real recovery from the financial collapse of 2008, found that fully 93 percent of additional income gains coming out of the recession went straight into the wallets and purses of the top 1 percent. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#collapse #coming #covering #economic #financial

Now I am discovering the world once more. England has widened my horizon. ↗

— Stefan Zweig

#discovering #england #horizon #i #i am