#ate

Without so much as turning a hair I freely admit that I am one of America's greatest realists. ↗

— Thorne Smith

#am #america #freely #greatest #hair

Every man is the craftsman of his future, whether he hone it himself or allow fate do it. ↗

— Ogwo David Emenike

#create-your-future #define-your-future #fate #future #inspirational

I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on. ↗

— Isaac Rosenberg

#consciousness #corner #covered #extraordinary #i

I hate being called a pop star. I hate that. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#called #hate #i #pop #pop star

Ne da sovražim – da ljubim, sem na svetu. ↗

— Sophocles

#inspirational #life #love #inspirational

I feel that if my only audience is the Christian audience, then I've failed in my mission ↗

— Eric Wilson

#mission-statement #inspirational

For one man to gain another must lose ↗

— Samuel McMahon

#religious #statement #inspirational

You made them hate me." Said Ender "So? What will you do about it? Crawl in a corner? Start kissing their little backsides so they'll love you again? There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you. I told them you were the best. Now you damn well better be." -Graff ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#hate #inspirational #love #inspirational

No thought is a stupid thought, those who are thoughtless are thought of as stupid. ↗

— Nate Spears

#nate-spears #passage #poet #poetry #quote

As a teenager in Brooklyn Quentin had often imagined himself engaged in martial heroics, but after this he knew, as a cold immutable fact, that he would do anything necessary, sacrificing whatever or whomever he had to, to avoid risking exposure to physical violence. Shame never came into it. He embraced his new identity as a coward. He would run in the other direction. He would lie down and cry and put his arms over his head or play dead. It didn't matter what he had to do, he would do it and be glad. ↗

— Lev Grossman

#cowardice #fear #martial-heroics #physical-violence #playing-dead