#cal

Sidekick? Fuck you, porky. ↗

— Julie James

#insults #name-calling #humor

It is not what we know that scares us, it is what we do not ↗

— A.G. Phillips

#inspirational #philosophical-reflection #scared #inspirational

Quiet descended on her, calm, content, as her needle, drawing the silk smoothly to its gentle pause, collected the green folds together and attached them, very lightly, to the belt. So on a summer's day waves collect, overbalance, and fall; collect and fall; and the whole world seems to be saying "that is all" more and more ponderously, until even the heart in the body which lies in the sun on the beach says too, that is all. Fear no more, says the heart, committing its burden to some sea, which sighs collectively for all sorrows, and renews, begins, collects, lets fall. And the body alone listens to the passing bee; the wave breaking; the dog barking, far away barking and barking. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#inspirational #inspirational

A story once went the rounds of Israel to the effect that Ben-Gurion described me as 'the only man' in his cabinet. What amused me about is that he (or whoever invented the story) thought that this was the greatest compliment that could be paid to a woman. I very much doubt that any man would have been flattered if I had said about him that he was the only woman in the government! ↗

— Golda Meir

#humor #inspirational #political #humor

Politically speaking, you don't necessarily give away information that allows your enemy to get an upper hand. But at the same time you don't keep reality from the population. ↗

— Dwight Schultz

#away #enemy #get #give #hand

Our Euripides the human, With his droppings of warm tears, and his touchings of things common Till they rose to meet the spheres. ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#humour #inspirational #inspirational

At beyond continent of reality, there are oceans of ideas. ↗

— Toba Beta

#idea #ideas #inspirational #ocean #physical

In an earlier stage of our development most human groups held to a tribal ethic. Members of the tribe were protected, but people of other tribes could be robbed or killed as one pleased. Gradually the circle of protection expanded, but as recently as 150 years ago we did not include blacks. So African human beings could be captured, shipped to America, and sold. In Australia white settlers regarded Aborigines as a pest and hunted them down, much as kangaroos are hunted down today. Just as we have progressed beyond the blatantly racist ethic of the era of slavery and colonialism, so we must now progress beyond the speciesist ethic of the era of factory farming, of the use of animals as mere research tools, of whaling, seal hunting, kangaroo slaughter, and the destruction of wilderness. We must take the final step in expanding the circle of ethics. - ↗

— Peter Singer

#human #inspirational #philosophy #inspirational

It's really a very simple arrangement, little mother. He fully understands that either they get healthy, or he gets sick. That sort of encourages him to do his best. ↗

— David Eddings

#inspirational #medical #humor

Without a whole lot of pressure, a diamond is just a piece of coal. ↗

— Miriam Darnell

#philosophical #inspirational