#dire

Exit pursued by a bear." [STAGE DIRECTIONS in The Winter's Tale (III, iii)] ↗

— William Shakespeare

#humor #stage-directions #humor

Ultimately in the end, it's the director's choice. ↗

— Donnie Wahlberg

#director #end #in the end #ultimately

The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts. ↗

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

#bring #directly #facts #most #safest

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#direct #direct proportion #expectations #grows #happiness

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#cannot #captain #collaborated #directed #extent

And of the Witch? In the life of a Witch, there is no "after", in the "ever after" of a Witch there is no "happily"; in the story of a Witch, there is no afterword. Of that part that is beyond the life story, beyond the story of the life, there is-alas, or perhaps thank mercy-no telling. She was dead, dead, and gone, and all that was left of her was the carapace of her reputation for malice. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#malice #misdirection #wicked #wicked-witch-of-the-west #life

We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves. ↗

— Ethel Percy Andrus

#besides #direct #drives #happiness #inner

Americans are a can-do people, an enthusiastic people, a problem-solving people. And when given a direction and given a plan, they'll sign on. ↗

— Henry Cisneros

#direction #enthusiastic #given #people #plan

Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars. ↗

— Richard Halliburton

#direction #education #graduation #guts #humor

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

#life #life