#con

Aching all over, we reached level ground again, and Mr. Christy withdrew his claims, and agreed that no road anywhere else could possibly be so bad as a Mexican road; a decision which later experiences only served to confirm. ↗

— Edward Burnett Tylor

#again #agreed #anywhere #bad #christy

The journey and excursions in Mexico which have originated the narrative and remarks contained in this volume were made in the months of March, April, May, and June of 1856, for the most part on horseback. ↗

— Edward Burnett Tylor

#contained #excursions #horseback #journey #june

Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist. ↗

— Kenneth Tynan

#content #fist #further #goes #hand

Neither was there any heresy, or diversity of opinion, or disputing about the matter, till the pope had gathered a council to confirm this transubstantiation: wherefore it is most likely that this opinion came up by them of latter days. ↗

— William Tyndale

#any #came #confirm #council #days

Quello ch'io avrei voluto era morire in mezzo a estranei, sotto un cielo sgombro di nuvole. E nondimeno il mio desiderio differiva dai sentimenti dell'antico greco che ambiva morire nel Sole brillante. Quello ch'io avrei voluto era un suicidio natural, spontaneo; una morte simile a quella del volpacchiotto, non ancora ben pratico di astuzie, che va errando sbadatamente su un viottolo montano ed è colpito dal cacciatore a causa della sua stupidità. ↗

— Yukio Mishima

#nature

Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today, ethics, moral. ↗

— Hugo Chavez

#architecture #be the first #believe #convinced #debate

Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles. ↗

— John Tyndall

#consecutive #existence #life #life is a #moments

Considering the amount of information we're bombarded by, it's amazing if a song can transcend time. ↗

— Michael Bolton

#amount #bombarded #considering #information #song

We are constantly creating ourselves by what we move toward or away from. ↗

— George Weinberg

#constantly #creating #move #ourselves #toward

In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin. ↗