#ann

Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#because #cannot #condition #equally #grace

I'll quit tanning when the satchel handle grows out of my back. ↗

— Kelly Ripa

#grows #handle #i #out #quit

The channels of intuitive knowledge are opened according to the intensity of individual need. ↗

— Jane Roberts

#channels #individual #intensity #intuitive #knowledge

My criticism is too severe sometimes and that is not good. But why don't you start doing your work unless your leader flies into a rage? It is not that you cannot do it but that you don't want to do it. ↗

— Zhu Rongji

#criticism #doing #flies #good #into

Sometimes labeling is only useful, like with OCD. Once you're labeled you can be treated. On other occasions labeling leads to tyranny, like with childhood bipolar disorder in the U.S. ↗

— Jon Ronson

#childhood #disorder #labeled #labeling #leads

The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that. ↗

— Richard Rorty

#beliefs #cannot #cause #does #hold

Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.' ↗

— Ernestine Rose

#carry #freedom #half #one half #other

On some peculiar pigmented cells found in two mosquitoes fed on malarial. ↗

— Ronald Ross

#going #i #indefensible #indefinable #manner

The belief is growing on me that the disease is communicated by the bite of the mosquito... She always injects a small quantity of fluid with her bite - what if the parasites get into the system in this manner. ↗

— Ronald Ross

#going #i #indefensible #indefinable #manner

I can't live without eyeliner. ↗

— Sanya Richards-Ross

#going #i #indefensible #indefinable #manner