#lives

People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives. ↗

— J. Michael Straczynski

#blame #capable #energy #enough #excuses

Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#lives #out #percent #playing #spend

The Jew always lives from the blood of other peoples, he needs such murders and such sacrifices. ↗

— Julius Streicher

#blood #jew #lives #needs #other

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it. ↗

— William Styron

#exhausted #experiences #great #great book #leave

Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever. ↗

— William Styron

#books #born #death #die #dominion

What person here illegally (and in his right mind), will go to the government, announce being here illegally (e.g. plead guilty), provide all sorts of information as to where that person lives etc. to get a work permit only to be a target for deportation in two years? ↗

— Greta Van Susteren

#being #deportation #etc #get #go

But now I've got a young son and his interest is in science and now when I talk to him, I see that in the science sphere of our lives there is new, there is progress. ↗

— Janet Suzman

#him #his #i #i see #interest

As parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts we need to start getting out into nature with the young people in our lives. Families play a key role in getting kids outside. ↗

— David Suzuki

#families #getting #grandparents #into #key

From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is explosive change. ↗

— David Suzuki

#change #changes #environmental #evolutionary #explosive

Some argue we should get coal, oil and gas out of the ground as quickly as possible, build more pipelines and make as much money as we can selling it here and abroad. Their priorities are the economy and meeting short-term energy needs so we can live the lives to which we've become accustomed. ↗

— David Suzuki

#accustomed #argue #become #build #coal