#age

But my estimates, for instance, based upon book information, were simply ridiculous, fanciful images of African attractions were soon dissipated, anticipated pleasures vanished, and all crude ideas began to resolve themselves into shape. ↗

— Henry Morton Stanley

#anticipated #attractions #based #began #book

This is for all of you out there tonight, reaching for a dream - don't ever give up! Never ever listen to anyone, when they try to discourage you, because they do that, believe me! ↗

— Mariah Carey

#because #believe #discourage #dream #ever

These are all elements, but the main thing we can do in the Middle East is encourage the reformist elements. ↗

— Frank Carlucci

#elements #encourage #main #main thing #middle

We went into Iraq because Iraq posed a threat to the stability of the region and was engaged in the process of trying to develop weapons of mass destruction and had links to terrorists. ↗

— Frank Carlucci

#destruction #develop #engaged #had #into

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#claimed #exclusively #experience #now #once

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth. ↗

— Anna Jameson

#language #truth

Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain Beauty. When you speak, or read, or write, you can tell if you've spoken or read or written a fine sentence. You can recognise a well-tuned phrase or an elegant style. But when you are applying the rules of grammar skilfully, you ascend to another level of the beauty of language. When you use grammar you peel back the layers, to see how it is all put together, to see it quite naked, in a way. ↗

— Muriel Barbery

#beauty

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

#develop #discouragement #failure #failures #stepping

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

#dreamed #ever #far #more #most

I mean, I'm in the business of storytelling, not message making. ↗

— John le Carre

#i #making #mean #message #storytelling