#lem

It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#around #became #cannot #con #control

He is every other inch a gentleman. ↗

— Rebecca West

#gentleman #inch #other

I sat through Ladies and Gentlemen, the Rolling Stones like three times at the Skyway when it came out. ↗

— Paul Westerberg

#gentlemen #i #ladies #like #out

I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for. ↗

— William Westmoreland

#i #know #lynched #lynching #my own

No, I don't have any problems leaving disappointments behind. I've had lots of good days at golf and a few disappointments, so you never know what's around the corner. ↗

— Lee Westwood

#around #behind #corner #days #disappointments

I always thought we had an environmental problem, but I hadn't realized how urgent it was. James Lovelock writes that by the end of this century there will be one billion people left. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#billion #century #end #environmental #had

If liberals want to send tens of millions of dollars down the drain, I have no problem with that. ↗

— Paul Weyrich

#down #drain #i #liberals #millions

Policy makers still think that if we just hand out more money the world's problems will be solved. ↗

— Paul Weyrich

#just #makers #money #more #out

We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use problems as weapons to blame and defeat opposition forces. No wonder we can't come up with real lasting solutions! ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#come #competing #defeat #experience #forces

Yet we act as if simple cause and effect is at work. We push to find the one simple reason things have gone wrong. We look for the one action, or the one person, that created this mess. As soon as we find someone to blame, we act as if we've solved the problem. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#action #blame #cause #created #effect