#age

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#difficulties #discourage #grow #human #human spirit

God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#books #dead #distant #god #heirs

People's real hopes and dreams can be distorted and misdirected and packaged until you're not sure what you really want or what you even really need. ↗

— Tracy Chapman

#dreams #even #hopes #misdirected #need

My older sister encouraged me from early on and bought me one of the first guitars I had. She listened to all of the crappy songs that I wrote when I was 8 years old and encouraged me to keep doing it. ↗

— Tracy Chapman

#crappy #doing #early #encouraged #first

To have another language is to possess a second soul. ↗

— Charlemagne

#language #possess #second #soul

There is a time for all things - except marriage, my dear. ↗

— Thomas Chatterton

#dear #except #marriage #things #time

I don't like message movies either. ↗

— Don Cheadle

#i #like #message #movies

From our perspective, trying to deal with this continuing campaign of terror, if you will, the war on terror that we're engaged in, this is a continuing enterprise. The people that were involved in some of those activities before 9/11 are still out there. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#before #campaign #continuing #deal #engaged

Mutual funds give people the sense that they're investing with the big boys and that they're really not at a disadvantage entering the stock market. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#disadvantage #entering #funds #give #investing

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative. ↗

— Maurice Chevalier

#alternative #bad #consider #old #old age