#quests

There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: one is roots, the other is wings. ↗

— Hodding Carter

#children #give #lasting #other #our

Man has now become an adjunct to perfect and carry forward these conquests. ↗

— Albert Claude

#become #carry #conquests #forward #man

The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them. ↗

— Jean Genet

#extent #fame #heroes #little #owes

Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests. ↗

— Charles Lindbergh

#conquests #dreaming #find #future #impossible

I am rich from the bequests other gifted people have seen fit to leave to me. ↗

— Mercedes McCambridge

#bequests #fit #gifted #i #i am

Actors are accustomed to doing exactly what the director or writer requests us to do, and rarely get involved in that part of the process. ↗

— Catherine McCormack

#director #doing #exactly #get #involved

It doesn't work the same way everywhere. The Americans are the most gullible, because they don't like to deny co-workers' requests. People in the former Soviet bloc countries are less trusting, perhaps because of their previous experiences with their countries' secret services. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#bloc #co-workers #countries #deny #everywhere

Italy has piled up huge public debt because the successive governments were too close to the life of ordinary citizens, too willing to please the requests of everybody, thereby acting against the interests of future generations. ↗

— Mario Monti

#against #because #citizens #close #debt

I always give the encore over to chaos, so people can yell out requests and I can hack my way through a song that I don't really know anymore. ↗

— Liz Phair

#anymore #chaos #give #hack #i

I thought, gazing at the beauty of the landscape again, it is as though the fiend has prevailed against the angels, and fixed his throne in a heaven, to rule it as though it were Hell. ↗

— Tom Holland

#contrast #evil #good-and-evil #heaven-and-hell #observation