#akin

Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#bend #bent #destiny #everything #having

A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker. ↗

— Ann Bancroft

#courage #expedition #how #i #i think

I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#correct #could #customs #etc #faces

I love fools' experiments. I am always making them. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#am #experiments #fools #i #i am

The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days - an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began stretching our riders and making better time. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#began #better #better time #day #days

Inspiration is God making contact with itself. ↗

— Ram Dass

#god #inspiration #itself #making

It seems like the studios are either making giant blockbusters, or really super-small indies. And the mid-level films I grew up on, like 'Back to the Future' and all those John Hughes movies, the studios aren't doing. It's hard to get them on their feet. ↗

— Chris Evans

#blockbusters #doing #either #feet #films

In those days, reserve duty lasted for six years, which, I might add, was three times as long as service in the regular army, although to be perfectly honest, I was unable to fulfill my entire obligation because I was taking acting classes and they said I could skip my last year. ↗

— Larry David

#add #although #army #because #classes

Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#education #imperative #making #many #moral

The opera always loses money. That's as it should be. Opera has no business making money. ↗

— Rudolf Bing

#business #loses #making #making money #money