Shadow owes its birth to light.
John Gay
Recitation: by Male by Female
Being a writer usually entails a fairly quiet life. However much travel one might do, however many tours and appearances, the job entails solitude: long hours in libraries, long hours at a desk.
Jill Paton Walsh
LifeJobTravelSolitudeLongQuiet
Friends and family were convinced I was functioning just fine because I was efficient, productive and successful - who wouldn't be working twenty hour days? I had everybody fooled with my illness.
Andy Behrman
FamilyFriends And FamilyFriends
In the last 15 years, only 500,000 jobs have been created per year. So from a long time ago, every year 700,000 Mexicans have only three routes to take: migration, the informal economy and the path to antisocial behavior.
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador
PathTimeBehaviorYearLongThree
Well, I always had this desire to celebrate and somehow be a part of things that I thought were really great.
John Hodgman
GreatCelebrateThoughtDesireWell
By competent evidence, is meant such as the nature of the thing to be proved requires; and by satisfactory evidence, is meant that amount of proof, which ordinarily satisfies an unprejudiced mind, beyond any reasonable doubt.
Simon Greenleaf
NatureMindDoubtBeyondEvidence
I live in Indiana and teach at Purdue University, a wonderful school with some of the brightest students I have ever had the privilege of working with. My colleagues are powerful and intelligent and kind. The cost of living is low, the prairie is wide, and on clear nights, I can see all the stars in the sky above.
Roxane Gay
StarsLiveSkySchoolColleagues
You imagine running 120 miles a week, week in, week out, for the past four or five years. It takes a little bit out of you.
Mo Farah
PastWeekYouYearsOutLittle
When I was trying to come up with a stage name, I thought 'Lord' was super rad, but really masculine - ever since I was a little kid, I have been really into royals and aristocracy. So to make Lord more feminine, I just put an 'e' on the end! Some people think it's religious, but it's not.
Lorde
PeopleThinkThoughtNameEndKid
You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself.
Douglas Coupland
LifeYourselfWaitFateYouChanges
In 1975, I quit my tenure, and we moved from Ann Arbor to New Hampshire. It was daunting to pay for groceries and the mortgage by freelance writing - but it worked, and I loved doing it.
Donald Hall
WritingLovedDoingNewQuitPay
As you say goodbye to lingering disappointments and unattended grief, you will discover that every person, situation and painful incident comes bearing gifts.
Debbie Ford
GriefGoodbyeYouSituationPerson
You don't get there the easy way. If you feel sorry for yourself, and you let yourself go down, you will drown.
Debbie Reynolds
YourselfSorryFeelEasyYouDown
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