#all

A true leader is not meant to be greeted with unanimous praise by his people. A leader is meant to be questioned, to be suspect, to be hated. If he is not, then one can easily assume that either he has not challenged his abilities as a leader by making a decision that creates a split between the people, or he is forcing his subjects to bow before him. ↗

— Evan Meekins

#fantasy #fantasy-fiction #fiction #leadership #praise

The strong-minded rise to the challenge of their goals and dreams. The weak-minded become haters. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#dreams #goals #haters #life #rise

Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience. ↗

— August Wilson

#blacks #custodians #experience #had #operate

Wake me up Wake me up, you said But I was sleeping, too I was dreaming But now I"m waking up Still waking up I can see the sun ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#wake-up #wolves-of-mercy-falls #dreams

I started to put on weight when I was about four and a half and it got really bad when I was around nine. I ballooned. I was about 110 pounds. ↗

— Carnie Wilson

#around #bad #four #got #half

When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse, Out of the corner of my eye. I turned to look but it was gone. I cannot put my finger on it now. The child is grown, the dream is gone. I have become comfortably numb. ↗

— Roger Waters Pink Floyd

#the-wall #dreams

For the parents of a Little Leaguer, a baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown into innings. ↗

— Earl Wilson

#baseball #baseball game #breakdown #game #innings

Everything I dream is something simple and plain and everyday. That’s how I know they are dreams. Because the simple and plain and everyday things are the ones that we can never have ↗

— Ally Condie

#cassia-reyes #matched #dreams

She had always lived her best life in dreams. She knew no greater pleasure than that moment of passage into the other place, when her limbs grew warm and heavy and the sparkling darkness behind her lids became ordered and doors opened; when conscious thought grew owl's wings and talons and became other than conscious. ↗

— John Crowley

#doors #falling-asleep #sleep #sophie-dale-drinkwater #sparkling-darkness

Mr. Darcy was in Pride and Prejudice and at first he was all snooty and huffy; then he fell in a lake and came out with his shirt all wet. And then we all loved him. In a swoony way. ↗

— Louise Rennison

#pride-and-prejudice #tallulah-casey #dreams