#age

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#classical #dead #dispute #distribution #emphasis

The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#dread #fear #get #get married #greater

The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#confessed #consciousness #courage #display #endurance

The only possible role that I can see for reconciliation would be to make modest changes in the major package to improve affordability, to deal with what share of Medicaid expansion the federal government pays, those kinds of issues, which is the traditional role for reconciliation in health care. ↗

— Kent Conrad

#changes #deal #expansion #federal #federal government

Even within the last three or four years, I have a greater ability to communicate, I think. I have more courage to show the stuff... And it does take courage. ↗

— Barbara Cook

#communicate #courage #does #even #four

Dedication, Determination, and hard work will feed life into your dreams. ↗

— LaDonna M. Cook

#encouragement #inspiring #motivation #dreams

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#better #dinner #feast #grace #sometimes

The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#authors #backs #behind #dead #down

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps. ↗

— Christopher Columbus

#execution #i #indies #intelligence #make

For this purpose I determined to keep an account of the voyage, and to write down punctually every thing we performed or saw from day to day, as will hereafter appear. ↗

— Christopher Columbus

#appear #day #day to day #determined #down