#away

The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost. ↗

— John Foster Dulles

#art #away #brink #get #getting

What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away? ↗

— Logan P. Smith

#bring #half #joy #sweet #taken

I loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world. ↗

— Patti Smith

#books #childhood #i #interested #interior

After I play every character, I always walk away and feel a little different. I've experienced something that's not my life, but I've made it my life. ↗

— Brittany Snow

#always #away #character #different #every

I leave a lot open so I can fill it in later. If I don't have any ideas right away, I can fill it in later. ↗

— Jaime Hernandez

#away #fill #i #i can #ideas

It's a matter of reducing the work to its very simplest possible state, eliminating all of the things that lead away from the guts of the work, the thing the work is really about. Anything that's there must build towards its over-all organization and meaning. ↗

— Paul Cullen

#anything #away #build #eliminating #guts

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#away #decent #decent man #even #every

I steeled myself for the next response. I knew it was going to be one of the Zen life lessons. [...] Instead he kissed me. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#life

The other problem in my life is Dimitri. He's the one who killed Natalie, and he's a total badass. He's also pretty good-looking. Okay—more than good-looking. He's hot—like, the kind of hot that makes you stop walking on the street and get hit by traffic. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#rose-hathaway #life

Perseverance is a virtue that cannot be understated. ↗

— Bob Riley

#away #budding #democracies #due #half