#be

I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster. ↗

— Catherine II

#brave #courage #disaster #even #i

You know, I live a monastic lifestyle. No, I do. I do live in extremes, basically. I go back and forth. Once every six months, I'll have a day where I eat more chocolate than has ever been consumed by a human being. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#basically #been #being #chocolate #consumed

Making use of human weaknesses in intelligence work is a logical matter. It keeps coming up, and of course you try to look at all the aspects that interest you in a human being. ↗

— Markus Wolf

#being #coming #course #human #human being

I love changing what I look like because I always feel super strange whenever I do watch something that I'm in. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#because #changing #feel #i #i always

Why can't I be different and unusual... like everyone else? ↗

— Vivian Stanshall

#different #else #everyone #i #like

I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#best #closer #different #form #i

Who belongs to the community of the commonly protected? ↗

— Robert Casey

#commonly #community #protected #who

Testing oneself is best when done alone. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#best #done #oneself #testing

I know General Grant better than any other person in the country can know him. It was my duty to study him, and I did so day and night, when I saw him and when I did not see him, and now I tell you what I know, he cannot govern this country. ↗

— Edwin M. Stanton

#better #cannot #country #day #did

We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours? ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#battles #been #black #champions #class