#lea

Well, I started out down a dirty road Started out all alone And the sun went down as I crossed the hill And the town lit up, the world got still I'm learning to fly but I ain't got wings Coming down is the hardest thing Well, the good ol' days may not return And the rocks might melt and the sea may burn I'm learning to fly but I ain't got wings Coming down is the hardest thing Well, some say life will beat you down Break your heart, steal your crown So I've started out for God knows where I guess I'll know when I get there I'm learning to fly around the clouds But what goes up must come down ↗

— Tom Petty

#life

I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working. ↗

— Dana Plato

#honest #i #pleasure #to be honest #working

He was twenty. I remembered twenty. I'd known everything at twenty. It took me another year to realize I knew nothing. I was still hoping to learn something before I hit thirty, but I wasn't holding my breath. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#learning #twenty #knowledge

If you do what we ask you to do, the victories will belong to you, and the losses to me. ↗

— Dean Smith

#submission #leadership

There is always going to be a hill that you have to move to get to the other side ↗

— hanna montana

#life

She paused and saw him tense in expectation. He wouldn’t like to hear this, but better from her than one of the others. “You aren’t the only pilot I have in my service. And you aren’t the only person with a dark past, though the illegal things that you did, you were forced to do by the Core. But I will tell you what I’ve told the others. This is your last chance. You screw up with me and you get shipped up river. I don’t offer second chances—I offer last chances.” Nope, he didn’t like it. She saw the hand not holding the bottle of beer curl into a fist. Sin and Del, from Sunscapes Trilogy, Book 1: Last Chance ↗

— Michelle O'Leary

#futuristic-romance #michelle-oleary #romance #romantic-adventure #science-fiction

One learns to itch where one can scratch. ↗

— Scott Reed

#learns #scratch #where

What I've learned about marriage: You need to have each other's back; you have to be a kind of team going through life. ↗

— Tom Petty

#back #each #going #i #kind

Wherefore the race being not to the swift, etc. but time and chance happening to all men, I leave the Judgement of the whole to the Candid, of whose correction I shall never be impatient. ↗

— William Petty

#candid #chance #correction #etc #happening

Have you ever found any logical reason why mutual promises are sufficient consideration for one another (like the two lean horses of a Calcutta hack who can only just stand together)? I have not. ↗

— Frederick Pollock

#any #consideration #ever #found #hack