#dear

Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#alive #been #crushed #cynicism #cynics

It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from "Dear Abby" instead of going to Mom and Dad. ↗

— Abigail Van Buren

#advice #commentary #counsel #dad #dear

The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once. ↗

— Abraham Cahan

#dearest #far #life #near #once

Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules. ↗

— Maria Callas

#dear #goddam #i #make #me

Dear disgruntled artists: the key to success isn't kicking down the door; it's building your own. ↗

— Brian Celio

#building #dear #disgruntled #door #down

Declare this smite time, extracting precious gems and wholly hours you share to fruitcake a friend so dear. ↗

— Bradley Chicho

#declare #extracting #friend #gems #hours

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#brings #conversation #dearly #essentials #how

Never mind, dear, we're all made the same, though some more than others. ↗

— Noel Coward

#made #mind #more #never #others

Kids are more genuine. When they come up and want to talk to you, they don't have an agenda. It's more endearing and less piercing to your aura. ↗

— Alan Cumming

#aura #come #endearing #genuine #kids

Nationalism - in other words, the dividing of the church into bodies - consisting of such and such a nation, is a novelty, not above three centuries old, although many dear children of God are found dwelling in it. ↗

— John Nelson Darby

#although #bodies #centuries #children #church