#dress

I love a pair of sexy heels with jeans, a nice jacket, or a little dress. ↗

— Beyonce Knowles

#heels #i #i love #jacket #jeans

While there's been much progress on terrorism, there's still much work to do and it is very important that the countries work together in order to address this threat together. ↗

— Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

#been #countries #important #much #order

She was a fly, but the others were dragonflies, butterflies, beautiful insects, dancing, fluttering, skimming, while she alone dragged herself up out of the saucer. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#beauty

She did what girls generally do when they don't feel the part: she dressed it instead. ↗

— Zadie Smith

#fashion #girls #beauty

Elizabeth: "Maybe he'll surprise you." Meghann: "Birdie, they all surprise me. Last week, I hugged my date at the door and felt a bra strap. ↗

— Kristin Hannah

#dating #surprise #dating

What is blackness? Is it the way you talk? Do you got to say, 'Dey this, dey dat.' Or the way you dress? Or is it the forgiving of certain things? What is black enough? ↗

— Douglas Wilder

#blackness #certain #certain things #dress #enough

Her address book confirmed it, the pages inhabited equally by the living and the dead....Each name called up raucous dinner parties and gin-and-tonics on sunny patios, lazy Saturday afternoons at the swim club, station wagons filled with noisy boys in polyester baseball uniforms. ↗

— Stewart O'Nan

#memory #equality

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#inaugural-address #mercy #forgiveness

Valerie Jennings had clearly searched deep within her wardrobe for something suitably flattering, only to retrieve a frock of utter indifference to fashion. There had been an attempt to tame her hair, which seemed to have been abandoned, and the fuzzy results were clipped to the back of her head. "You look nice," said Hebe Jones. ↗

— Julia Stuart

#friendship #hair #friendship

The reason I want you to put a shirt on is, well, because, um..." "You've never seen a guy with his shirt off?" "Ha, ha. Very funny. Believe me, you don't have anything I haven't seen before." "Wanna bet?" he says, then moves his hands to the button on his jeans and pops it open. Isabel walks in at that exact moment. "Whoa, Alex. Please keep your pants on. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#undressing #funny