#be

More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any other single factor. ↗

— John W. Vessey, Jr.

#battlefield #because #been #english #english language

All the things I've thought about love are true. It's beautiful and terrible and it doesn't make things perfect. It ends things, and it brings beginnings. This is mine. ↗

— Elizabeth Scott

#beauty

She was truly a beautiful girl. I could feel a small polished stone sinking through the darkest waters of my heart. All those deep convoluted channels and passageways, and yet she managed to toss her pebble right down to the bottom of it all. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#beauty

If you are born into a family below the national median income, we provide you with an additional $500, and for every contribution made to a child's account below the national median income, we match it dollar for dollar - the federal government will. ↗

— Harold Ford

#additional #below #born #child #contribution

It's amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the young composers who come to work with me say is that they want to write music people will like, instead of gaining their credentials by being rejected by the audience. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

#audience #being #come #composers #credentials

Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

#been #civilizations #contact #dust #intimate

People in very high places suddenly fall, and we are always surprised because we don't factor in the basic element that they're humans and, therefore, they are flawed and have weaknesses. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

#basic #because #element #factor #fall

She often spoke to falling seeds and said, "Ah hope you fall on soft ground," because she had heard seeds saying that to each other as they passed. The familiar people and things had failed her so she hung over the gate and looked up the road towards way off. She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie's first dream was dead, so she became a woman. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#beauty

Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caresses of a subhumanly ugly mate? ↗

— Germaine Greer

#beauty

It was all in my head and now all I had to do was figure out a way to get it down on paper. ↗

— Ann Patchett

#beauty