#ares

He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom. ↗

— James Huneker

#dares #direction #first #first step #fool

I'm a real person that cares about his art and cares about what he's doing. I have a heart and a soul and I want to touch people and give. ↗

— LL Cool J

#art #cares #doing #give #heart

Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan. ↗

— Erica Jong

#grade #grade school #language #lives #most

The squares of the periodic times are to each other as the cubes of the mean distances. ↗

— Johannes Kepler

#distances #each #mean #other #periodic

It's wonderful to be part of a family that cares so much about others. ↗

— Marta Kristen

#cares #family #much #others #part

When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith. ↗

— Abraham Kuyper

#bare #battle #become #before #begin

He said it with everything he did, every touch, every caress, every physical pleasure he bestowed upon me. Give it all to me. Give me your will. ↗

— Kitty Thomas

#give #pleasure #touch #will #food

No one is asking what happened to all the homeless. No one cares, because it's easier to get on the subway and not be accosted. ↗

— Richard Linklater

#asking #because #cares #easier #get

I've never dreamed of being famous. The idea of it really scares me. ↗

— Jeremy London

#being famous #dreamed #famous #i #idea

But it is true that sometimes an enveloping darkness aids one to clearer vision; as in a panorama building, for example, where the obscurity about the entrance prepares one better for the climax, and gives the scene depicted a more real and vivid appearance. ↗

— Pierre Loti

#aids #appearance #better #building #clearer