Maggie, we're through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
Tennessee WilliamsRead
Only some radical change can divert the downward course of my spirit, some startling new place or people to arrest the drift, the drag.
Interpretation
Radical changes are necessary to escape a downward spiral in life.
In this quote, Tennessee Williams expresses the idea that without significant upheaval or transformation, one may find themselves in a negative pattern or mindset. He suggests that a dramatic shift, whether through new experiences or interactions with different people, is essential to halt this decline and rejuvenate the spirit.
In practice
This quote can be used in a motivational speech about embracing change.
Maggie, we're through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
Show me a person who hasn´t known any sorrow and I´ll show you a superficial.
Success and failure are equally disastrous.
The rest of my days I'm going to spend on the sea. And when I die, I'm going to die on the sea. You know what I shall die of? I shall die of eating an unwashed grape. One day out on the ocean I will die — with my hand in the hand of some nice-looking ship's doctor, a very young one with a small blond moustache and a big silver watch.
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
The amelioration of the world cannot be achieved by sacrifices in moments of crisis; it depends on the efforts made and constantly repeated during the humdrum, uninspiring periods, which separate one crisis from another, and of which normal lives mainly consist.
When I stepped away two springs ago, I just really wanted to shift my priorities to be able to be more available and present to show up for things that I felt were mattering more than being a professional athlete.
Change is not made without inconvenience.
Egypt needs to catch up with the rest of the world. We need to be free, democratic, and - society where people have the right to live in freedom and dignity.
Affirmative action is the most important modern anti-discrimination technique ever instituted in the United States. It is the one tool that has had a demonstrable effect on discrimination. No one who knows anything about the subject would say it hasn't worked. It has certainly done something, or else it wouldn't have provoked so much opposition.
Each book I write is a shout into the silence and a prayer and a plea for change.
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