#entered

But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#blasted #bolt #cease #entered #exhibit

My research in this period centered around growth, technical change, and income distribution, both how growth affected the distribution of income and how the distribution of income affected growth. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

#around #both #centered #change #distribution

All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end. ↗

— Tacitus

#end #entered #enterprises #first #great

The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea. ↗

— John Templeton

#god #idea #individual #like #sea

It's self-centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity. ↗

— John Templeton

#describe #divinity #human #human beings #limited

If she does have a failing, and it's obviously only a tiny one, it's that she doesn't seem particularly curious about other people, or me, anyway. ↗

— David Nicholls

#self-centered #humor

The national debate on health care once centered on improving access to quality care, yet the effect of Obamacare will be the exact opposite, resulting in the shameful degradation of care for the neediest individuals. ↗

— Fred Upton

#care #centered #debate #degradation #effect

I can be stressed, or tired, and I can go into a meditation and it all just flows off of me. I'll come out of it refreshed and centered and that's how I'll feel and it'll carry through the day. ↗

— Ray Dalio

#centered #come #day #feel #flows

You don't get a chance to take a breath but when you do, you have some really good comedy moments that ease up on the tension that the movie is centered around which is Kim being kidnapped and her son and husband being kidnapped and the jeopardy that they're in. ↗

— David R. Ellis

#being #breath #centered #chance #comedy

The passive righteousness of faith frees me from passing final judgment on myself. ↗

— Tullian Tchividjian

#guilt #self-centeredness #faith