#able

I don't think I would have been able to stick with it and been proud of who I am and be feminine out on the court. I think I would have folded to the peer pressure if I didn't have my mom to encourage me to be me and be proud of how tall I am. ↗

— Lisa Leslie

#am #been #court #encourage #feminine

A very considerable body of the German people live in America and propose to fight that Government. Bourke in his great speech last week welcoming the Belgian mission to Boston worked out the President's meaning with care. ↗

— Shane Leslie

#belgian #body #boston #care #considerable

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#capable #first-rate #know #like #love

Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

#history #ignoring #insist #lessons #man

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#function #keep #reasonable #vice #virtue

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable. ↗

— Andre Breton

#affairs #because #despairing #desperate #everything

What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table? ↗

— Jacques Lacan

#convincing #could #face #gesture #laying

For me, I am still very happy to be able to do stage design as it's an opportunity to express the extreme. ↗

— Christian Lacroix

#am #design #express #extreme #happy

For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God. ↗

— Lactantius

#compels #god #gods #greatest #highest

Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things. ↗

— Lactantius

#divine #give #homer #human #information