#able

There is no more vulnerable human combination than an undergraduate. ↗

— John Dickey

#human #more #than #undergraduate #vulnerable

When I look into the crowd, I see young and old, black and white - it's amazing that I'm able to connect with so many different kinds of people. ↗

— Patti LaBelle

#amazing #black #black and white #connect #crowd

Nothing is less predictable than the development of an active scientific field. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

#development #field #less #nothing #predictable

You have to just accept your body. You may not love it all the way, but you just have to be comfortable with it, comfortable with knowing that that's your body. ↗

— Rihanna

#body #comfortable #just #knowing #love

Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#everybody #know #themselves

It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#act #am #anything #begin #beginning

Once I was in a cafe in Portland and the woman at the next table and I began chatting and in the course of our conversation she strongly recommend I visit this web site called 'The Rumpus' so I could read this advice column called 'Dear Sugar.' It was so painful not to tell her that in fact I was Sugar, but I didn't. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#began #cafe #called #chatting #column

I went with agnosticism for a long, long time because I just hated to say I was an atheist - being an atheist seemed so rigid. But the more I became comfortable with the word, and the more I read, it started to stick. ↗

— Julia Sweeney

#atheist #became #because #being #comfortable

Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#among #because #collective #creates #democratic

Someone sits at a table or lies on a sofa while staring motionless at a wall or ceiling. Once in a while this person writes down seven lines, only to cross out one of them 15 minutes later, and then another hour passes, during which nothing happens. Who could stand to watch this kind of thing? ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#another #ceiling #could #cross #down