#ear

The land of possibility is a better place to make your home than the realm of expectation will ever be ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#aspirations #expectation #fears #finding-yourself #hopes

Sweetheart, darling, dearest, it was funny to think that these endearments, which used to sound exceedingly sentimental in movies and books, now held great importance, simple but true verbal affirmations of how they felt for each other. They were words only the heart could hear and understand, words that could impart entire pentameter sonnets in their few, short syllables. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#falling-in-love #feelings #heart #love #love-at-first-sight

Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#romance #soul #soul

I have often heard it said that the United States is isolated and is not interested in European affairs. I assure you that this is not the case. ↗

— Frank B. Kellogg

#assure #case #european #heard #i

You want to teach the next generation so they can learn a little bit faster and a little bit more so everything becomes that much better. ↗

— Cobi Jones

#better #bit #everything #faster #generation

What I'm making music for now is more similar to what I was doing in the beginning. In those days it was all about doing music so when people heard it in a club it would take their minds of their worries. I got more artistic but now I've gone back to basics. ↗

— Curtis Jones

#artistic #back #basics #beginning #club

You know I used to be a heartthrob, and now I'm a coronary. ↗

— Davy Jones

#i #know #now #used #you

The more thoroughly I conduct scientific research, the more I believe that science excludes atheism. ↗

— Lord Kelvin

#believe #conduct #excludes #i #i believe

I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know the poems would travel. I didn't go to Lebanon until two years ago, but people told me that many Arabs had memorized these poems and translated them into Arabic. ↗

— June Jordan

#arabic #arabs #being #country #go

The main environmental challenge of the 21st century is poverty. When you don't know where your next meal is coming from, it's hard to consider the environment 100 years down the line. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#21st century #century #challenge #coming #consider