I think the one advantage to a failed - recovering, but a pretty broken - economy, and a lot of broken promises, is that we've pulled the veils from our eyes way earlier than most people do, and realize "Hey, you know what, maybe I should try do this thing that I really care about, and why not spend the time now during my best years to get into knitting, or coding, or swamp boat sailing. " And there's this resource called the Internet that's going to provide you with a stage and a library for all of those things.
the importance of recovering the customs and the institutions of the past thus inaugurating the archaeological approach to art
Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.
A book is a friend whose face is constantly changing. If you read it when you are recovering from an illness, and return to it years after, it is changed surely, with the change in yourself.
All patriarchal societies are either preparing for war, at war, or recovering from war.
Leisure is non-work for the sake of work. Leisure is the time spent recovering from work and in the frenzied but hopeless attempt to forget about work.
I'm a recovering lawyer. The practice of law has changed. Every agreement is a fight.
Wherever moral ambition exists, there right exists. And moral ambition itself must be presumed present in subconsciousness, even when the conscious self seems to reject it, so long as society has resources for bringing it into action; in much the same way that the life-saver presumes life to exist in the drowned man until he has exhausted his resources for recovering respiration.
I see myself as a recovering journalist.
Accept the things I cannot change," I said. "And pray for the courage to change the things I can, as well as the wisdom to know the difference. " The thing is. . . I know this is good advice. It's called the Serenity Prayer, and it really does put things in perspective (it's suppose to be for recovering alcoholics, but it helps recovering freakoutaholics, like me, as well).
I always say, "Never give your lead character an infant. Make them a recovering alcoholic, or the victim of a horrible violent crime because you can really never truly recover from that. " It's a story pitfall.
I truly believe that recovery requires some kind of stasis where you have to sit and internalize and lick your wounds and confront that darkness. I think that being hurt and recovering from that hurt is important in building character.
I'm a recovering alcoholic so I should be home.
I'm playing somebody who is a recovering drug addict who got out of prison. It takes place in 2 weeks-the 1st 2 weeks I'm out of prison.
What we are doing in fact is recovering and progressing and sustaining the recovery of our democracy.
I was hit many times in various parts of the body, including my right leg, and thank God I am recovering. I was also severely wounded in my left leg. Iraqi and French doctors will conduct an operation shortly and, God willing, I will recover.
I'm a recovering undercover over-lover.
Recovering from the suicide of a loved one, you need all the help you can get.
Recovering in a Calcutta, India hospital. I think I'm more difficult than critical.
I went to Catholic school in and out. I'm what you call a recovering Catholic. I have many major issues with the church.
