#action

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature. ↗

— Josef Albers

#more #nature #probably #real #than

You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet. ↗

— Theophile Gautier

#been #cannot #completely #critic #established

God is not glorified in any transaction upon earth so much as in the conversion of a sinner. ↗

— Archibald Alexander

#conversion #earth #glorified #god #much

We all know the Indians were colonized by the Europeans, but every colonized Indian has been colonized by the Indian reaction to colonization. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#colonization #europeans #every #indian #indians

So what if you're plain? Anyone can like a beautiful woman or a handsome man. That's easy. But power is the ability to inspire attraction without the obvious. ↗

— Donna Lynn Hope

#beauty #power #beauty

When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room. ↗

— Woody Allen

#i #into #kidnapped #out #parents

For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#combined #energy #more #narrowness #nothing

I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger. ↗

— Marc Almond

#distractions #get #had #i #i think

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#both #criticism #doubt #enslave #faith

None of us could choose our birth, but we could still chose our family, and only those who love you are your true family. ↗

— Meg X

#fantasy #science-fiction-romance #ya #family