#wards

Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#christmas #christmas album #heading #looked #making

On the acquisition of Louisiana, in the year 1803, the attention of the government of the United States, was early directed towards exploring and improving the new territory. ↗

— Meriwether Lewis

#attention #directed #early #exploring #government

To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#applause #demand #hinders #means #our

There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards. ↗

— Titus Livius

#enterprises #great #hold #man #nothing

An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards. ↗

— John Locke

#balance #beams #downwards #every #excellent

Towards the end of 2003 it was hard to get through training - and the darkest point was when a doctor told me there was a possibility I could end up in a wheelchair. ↗

— Jonah Lomu

#darkest #doctor #end #get #hard

No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel and it may seem hard to get to it but you can do it and just keep working towards it and you'll find the positive side of things. ↗

— Demi Lovato

#end #end of the tunnel #find #get #going

Because Olivia Newton-John wasn't from Nashville, they didn't like her winning our awards. I've got no complaints. ↗

— Loretta Lynn

#because #complaints #got #her #i

Me and my partner, Conway Twitty, cleaned up at the 1972 Country Music Association Awards. ↗

— Loretta Lynn

#awards #cleaned #conway #country #country music

I used to look at these pictures of trumpeters pointing their instrument to the ceiling. Stunning pictures, but if you play the trumpet and point it upwards, all the spit comes back into your mouth! ↗

— Humphrey Lyttelton

#ceiling #comes #i #instrument #into