#owed

It wasn't until I let go of the idea of the brass ring that it showed up, and fortunately for me, it coincided with getting clean. ↗

— Samuel L. Jackson

#clean #fortunately #getting #go #i

True enough, nature has endowed me with a fair measure of patience and composure, yet I should be lying if I told you that, having seen the reporter off on his way to make his deadline, I fell peacefully asleep. ↗

— Leon Jouhaux

#composure #deadline #endowed #enough #fair

He knew a lot about his grandparents - and perhaps he feels he's been endowed with abilities to go into people's heads who are long dead - but, to a certain extent, he's making it up. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#been #certain #certain extent #dead #endowed

What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#allowed #average #bourgeois #end #everything

The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society. ↗

— Roy Jenkins

#become #been #better #civilised #dirty

To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons. ↗

— Ma Jian

#basic #become #beings #expression #freedom

We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#broadened #brotherhood #into #live #narrowed

My wife's income allowed me to do what I really loved. I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too. ↗

— Warren Farrell

#i #income #liberation #loved #me

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it? ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#forbear #pain #pleasure #who #would

Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the game will shortcut you. If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you. That's truly about the game, and in some ways that's about life too. ↗

— Michael Jordan

#be true #because #bestowed #effort #forth