#lives

I wanted to make comics that get at feelings that connect to the deepest moments of our lives, reading Tolstoy, Flaubert, Flannery O'Connor, Herman Melville, William Faulkner, Vladimir Nabokov and Carver to help gain the confidence to figure it out. I knew, however, the most doomed approach would be to simply create stories that felt 'literary.' ↗

— Chris Ware

#carver #comics #confidence #connect #connor

Tragically, the effort to make America and the world safer and to defend freedom around the world is not without an enormous cost to this Nation in terms primarily of lost lives and those who bear the scars and the wounds of war, and their families who must bear these losses. ↗

— John Warner

#around #bear #cost #defend #effort

That's what acting is - it's about... having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives. ↗

— Kerry Washington

#acting #allow #audience #characters #courage

You see the transformation that the arts have on young people. It changes their lives for the better. That's where my engagement is. ↗

— Kerry Washington

#better #changes #engagement #lives #people

I think I'm much less self confident today. I actually went through a quite painful period because of that thinking that I was completely hopeless. But I think that's something that we all go through at various times of our lives and it was quite a sustained thing with me. ↗

— Hugo Weaving

#because #completely #confident #go #hopeless

A lot of guys spend their lives saying no because it's an easier way to keep your job. ↗

— Cynthia Weil

#easier #guys #job #keep #lives

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#dissension #dock #gamble #homicide #international

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#community #crime #end #failure #in the end

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#lives #men #own #pay #reasonable

Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people. ↗

— Paul Wellstone

#advancing #cause #country #doing #for the people