#aught

There is no greater power than that of a laugh and happiness is a force which can save a person from the horrors of the world. ↗

— Hillary DePiano

#happiness #laughter #art

One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you. ↗

— Abraham Pais

#anything #because #caught #ever #get

The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move. ↗

— Abraham Pais

#anybody #assume #caught #game #honorable

Right now, my daughter's just rolling her eyes at everything I do; I'm just an embarrassment. ↗

— Elizabeth Perkins

#embarrassment #everything #eyes #her #i

The gentleman had also a young daughter, of rare goodness and sweetness of temper, which she took from her mother, who was the best creature in the world. ↗

— Charles Perrault

#best #creature #daughter #gentleman #goodness

Once upon a time there was a widow who had two daughters. The elder was so much like her, both in looks and character, that whoever saw the daughter saw the mother. ↗

— Charles Perrault

#character #daughter #daughters #elder #had

I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don't seem to know what real pain is. I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper. ↗

— Emo Philips

#asked #caught #childbirth #either #ever

We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success. ↗

— River Phoenix

#climbing #consume #corporate #hands #just

She smoothes the front of the dress, looking down at her hands, at her bitten fingernails, at her big feet in the pointy-toes shoes. This is a woman's dress, she thinks, a young woman's dress. It is not a girl's dress. It is solidly on the other side of the line outside of girlhood. It is a dress that says something big in a very quiet way; it is a dress that is talking to Alice right now, a dress that is making her feel possibilities never before considered, the possibility of perfume and pretty and dancing and boys. This dress is who she might be, only more so. ↗

— Laura Harrington

#coming-of-age #father-daughter #fiction #iraq-war #age

How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first? ↗

— Giorgos Seferis

#else #everything #first #him #how