#ace

My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder. ↗

— William Golding

#gray #keep #me #over #peer

Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#been #change #conditions #daring #every

Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#dull #heaven #live #must #place

Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its way persistently, until the entire fabric is doomed. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#entire #everything #expression #fabric #germ

As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#attempt #beneath #energy #get #i

We did not go to war in Afghanistan or in Iraq to, quote, 'impose democracy.' We went to war in both places because we saw those regimes as a threat to the United States. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#because #both #democracy #did #go

Let's face it: I paint well. I know it, you know it. There's no arguing really, is there? ↗

— Ron Wood

#face #i #know #paint #really

I haven't got a waist. I've just got a sort of place, a bit like an unmarked level crossing. ↗

— Victoria Wood

#crossing #got #haven #i #just

America's a melting pot, all races, cultures, religious choices. ↗

— Tiger Woods

#choices #cultures #melting #melting pot #pot

So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can't prove the question either way, which story do you prefer? Which is the better story, the story with animals or the story without animals? ↗

— Yann Martel

#inner-peace #search-for-truth #faith