#d

Let's continue to stand up for those who are vulnerable to being left out or marginalized. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#continue #left #marginalized #out #stand

The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always. ↗

— Willa Cather

#afar #always #being #church #coming

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#american #any #automatically #definition #disqualified

From THE VIRGIN HUNTRESS coming June 29, 2012: "I used to watch the stallions leaping the mares." "You what!" Hew almost choked. "Well, how else is a girl with no mother supposed to get any education? Although I doubt Mama would have told me very much. So there's really no reason to be timid, Hew. I already know all about the mating process. And to the best of my knowledge, the stallions never 'ignored it until it went away. ↗

— Victoria Vane

#education

No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. ↗

— Willa Cather

#build #his #person #security #upon

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening. ↗

— Willa Cather

#absence #bewildering #country #depressing #disheartening

Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness. ↗

— Willa Cather

#even #hard #hard place #incessantly #leave

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor. ↗

— Willa Cather

#emperor #fact #girl #i #never

The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#country #dissent #eliminate #entirely #ever

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#act #becomes #endless #forgiveness #habit