#ado

The scar, and her indifference to it, did something extraordinary for her, just as damage to some art object threw into relief how beautiful it had once been, tarnishing and tempering her face with the reminder of what humanity did to lovely things and how they bore it. ↗

— Ariana Franklin

#art

I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#amusing #beautiful #comic #deeply #even

Adoration is caring for God above all else. ↗

— Evelyn Underhill

#adoration #caring #else #god

What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever? ↗

— Thomas Wentworth

#forever #love #mother #outline #permanent

The friend that I based Heffer on was adopted, and it all played into his total personality. ↗

— Joe Murray

#based #friend #his #i #into

Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun. ↗

— Evita Peron

#mirror #see #shadows #sun #themselves

The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late. ↗

— Ogden Nash

#bodies #bundle #early #every #every night

I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption. ↗

— Richard J. Needham

#being #corrupt #corruption #down #i

I do shadow boxing and use a heavy bag, but I don't spar with anyone. ↗

— Liam Neeson

#bag #boxing #heavy #i #i do

I think there, there also had been just before I got to Honduras a rather spectacular capture of an arms shipment that from Nicaragua across Honduran test, territory destined for El Salvador and I think that some of that equipment had been also to Cuba and the Soviet bloc. ↗

— John Negroponte

#also #arms #been #before #bloc