#ear

Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#bear #earn #name #rejoice #reproach

It's really clear to me that you can't hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas. ↗

— Alan Alda

#clear #freshness #hang #ideas #life

In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it. ↗

— Ira Glass

#evidence #half-million #hear #i #know

Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers. ↗

— Lloyd Alexander

#dickens #friends #greatest #many #mark

I said, 'I'll give myself two years. If I can't support myself as an actress within two years, then I'll go back to choreography.' ↗

— Khandi Alexander

#back #choreography #give #go #i

God is not glorified in any transaction upon earth so much as in the conversion of a sinner. ↗

— Archibald Alexander

#conversion #earth #glorified #god #much

Intellectuals, academics, writers and poets were an important force in the early groups of volunteers. They had the means to get to Spain and were accustomed to travelling, whereas very few workers had left British shores. ↗

— Bill Alexander

#accustomed #british #early #few #force

The International Brigades and the British volunteers were, numerically, only a small part of the Republican forces, but nearly all had accepted the need for organization and order in civilian life. ↗

— Bill Alexander

#brigades #british #civilian #forces #had

I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death. ↗

— Eben Alexander

#believed #brain #death #described #escaped

If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn. ↗

— Lloyd Alexander

#books #i #learn #may #more