#sand

Our economy is on the move and we are creating thousands of new jobs, but we need to keep our foot on the gas pedal. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#economy #foot #gas #jobs #keep

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#defeats #going #great #great man #his

Nobody knows through how many thousands of years fighting men have made a place for themselves while the weak and peaceable have gone to the wall. ↗

— Elihu Root

#gone #how #knows #made #many

There is a reason why the cultures of Indigenous Australia inspire such fascination. And that is that they represent a unique way of thinking about the world. A vision that over tens of thousands of years has risen out of the land, the power, the very being of our continent, Australia. ↗

— Kevin Rudd

#australia #being #continent #cultures #fascination

I feel like you can look inside me and see all the places I am odd or unusual and fit your heart around them, for you are odd and unusual in just the same way. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clockwork-princess #page- #tessa-gray

Vanity is the quicksand of reason. ↗

— George Sand

#reason #vanity

He ploughs the waves, sows the sand, and hopes to gather the wind in a net, who places his hopes in the heart of a woman. ↗

— Jacopo Sannazaro

#heart #his #hopes #net #places

If all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there's no grain of sand to make the pearl. ↗

— Peter Sarsgaard

#circumstances #easy #grain #grain of sand #made

Stories, as much as we like to talk about them, retrospectively, as emanations of theme or worldview or intention, occur primarily as technical objects when they're being written. Or at least they do for me. They're the result of thousands of decisions made at speed during revision. ↗

— George Saunders

#being #decisions #during #intention #least

I write a thousand words a day. ↗

— Lisa See

#i #i write #thousand #thousand words #words