#ang

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#facing #fearless #let us #pray #sheltered

After Watergate, which happened when I was in college, I became increasingly inspired by journalism as a way to change the world. It sounds corny, but to wake the public up, to serve a higher cause. ↗

— David Talbot

#became #cause #change #change the world #college

He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome. ↗

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

#bad #becomes #darkness #deep #entangled

It's like, 'You're not allowed to change. That's not fair. We like you like this.' But I don't. So let me expand and express myself. ↗

— Joss Stone

#change #expand #express #fair #i

I like many different things you know so I'm probably going to experiment, and if I didn't I'd be a little bit strange and boring and stiff and kind of dead, and I'm very not that. ↗

— Joss Stone

#boring #dead #different #different things #experiment

Convinced that the attachment of colonies to the metropolis, depends infinitely more upon moral and religious feeling, than political arrangement, or even commercial advantage, I cannot but lament that more is not done to instill it into the minds of the people. ↗

— John Strachan

#arrangement #attachment #cannot #colonies #commercial

With the requests of some he complied, and has published a discourse, delivered before the Society for recovering drowned persons, which may be justly pronounced one of the most beautiful and interesting sermons in the English language. ↗

— John Strachan

#before #complied #delivered #discourse #drowned

The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#contrary #descended #direction #french #french language

The entrance to the Underworld is in Los Angeles. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#underworld #angels

When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly evolved. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#came #civilization #evolved #existence #french