#ado

The Spartans were a paradoxical people. They were the biggest slave owners in Greece. But at the same time, Spartan women had an unusual level of rights. It's a paradox that they were a bunch of people who in many ways were fascist, but they were the bulwark against the fall of democracy. ↗

— Frank Miller

#biggest #bulwark #bunch #democracy #fall

I went out to eat on a restaurant’s opening night. It was packed! I guess people heard I’d be dining there and came to adore me. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#delusional #funny #funny

Prestige is the shadow of money and power. ↗

— C. Wright Mills

#money #prestige #shadow

The way of a man's heart will be foreshadowed by what goodness lies in him - coming from above, and from around; but a way foreshadowed is not a way made. ↗

— Donald G. Mitchell

#around #coming #foreshadowed #goodness #heart

The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly no engineers and mechanics. Let Yankees adopt such low callings. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

#certainly #doctors #engineers #lawyers #low

The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#just #nothing #one word #play #shadow

Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution. ↗

— Edward Teller

#even #may #paradoxes #solution #suggest

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