#ed

It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life. ↗

— Samantha Bee

#few #get #hired #i #life

When I think back about my immediate reaction to that redheads girl, it seems to spring from an appreciation of natural beauty. I mean the heart pleasure you get from looking at speckled leaves or the palimpsested bark of plane trees in Provence. There was something richly appealing to her color combination, the ginger snaps floating in the milk-white skin, the golden highlights in the strawberry hair. it was like autumn, looking at her. It was like driving up north to see the colors. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#beauty

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#down #lives #man #men #provided

Faith is spiritualized imagination. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#imagination #spiritualized

No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#dined #ever #i #last #last night

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#array #art #his #man #medicine

Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#every man #heaven #his #inherited #man

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#best #mediocrity #only #trusted

The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#always #babe #bosom #feeds #first

The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#handled #ill #moment #pain #patiently