#ear

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#especially #misfortunes #others #quickly #shed

At boarding school you had to wear your name across your chest and your back, and obviously I had a pretty funny name. It wasn't Brown or Smith or Hughes. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#back #boarding #boarding school #brown #chest

I had a quick ear and could pick up languages. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#ear #had #i #languages #pick

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

Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom? ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#fear #history #our #result #ultimately

It's not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they were the right lessons. ↗

— Tom Clancy

#learned #lessons #loss #our #out

Clearness ornaments profound thoughts. ↗

— Luc de Clapiers

#ornaments #profound #thoughts

Matthew being a constant attendant on our Lord, his history is an account of what he saw and heard; and, being influenced by the Holy Spirit, his history is entitled to the utmost degree of credibility. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#attendant #being #constant #credibility #degree

As an actor, the first thing you learn in drama school is you never judge. ↗

— Jason Clarke

#drama #drama school #first #first thing #judge

Send me one hundred francs on our future deals, otherwise I will disappear in a cataclysm. ↗

— Camille Claudel

#disappear #francs #future #hundred #i