#dl

But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference. ↗

— William Godwin

#danger #endless #free #grating #interference

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#boldly #interesting #into #life #plunge

Sometimes, you start with the drawing and then the gag comes to you in the middle of it. That is when you start working on the solution of the gag, which is composition, placing, equilibrium, and character design. ↗

— Sergio Aragones

#comes #composition #design #drawing #equilibrium

When the mother of the race is free, we shall have a better world, by the easy right of birth and by the calm, slow, friendly forces of evolution. ↗

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#better world #birth #calm #easy #evolution

Occasionally it's been a long and bumpy road - one I'm still travelling - but I've always felt like my home town has been solidly behind me and I'm both grateful and proud. ↗

— Simon Armitage

#been #behind #both #felt #grateful

Compassion is the key in Islam and Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. They are profoundly similar. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#christianity #compassion #islam #judaism #key

For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#centuries #christians #east #jews #middle

To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#birds #hours #imitating #kindly #man

A central claim of the Bush administration's foreign policy is that the spread of democracy in the Middle East is the cure for terrorism. ↗

— Timothy Garton Ash

#bush #central #claim #cure #democracy

I have also been saddened, though hardly surprised, by the weakness of the EU's reaction to the criminal attack on the Danish embassy in Syria, which seems to have been permitted, if not actively encouraged, by the Syrian regime. ↗

— Timothy Garton Ash

#also #attack #been #criminal #danish