#eli

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with. ↗

— George Eliot

#done #each #effect #embarrassment #existed

It was a real surprise to me to come across the evidence that Christianity might once have been a danced religion. Certainly, some of the early church leaders thought this was great and spoke of what seems to have been circle dancing, perhaps around an altar. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#altar #around #been #certainly #christianity

Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they don't need to have hierarchy so much. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#directly #hierarchy #intervention #much #need

Protecting the institution of marriage safeguards, I believe, the American family. ↗

— John Boehner

#american #american family #believe #family #i

Well, any good comeback needs some true believers. ↗

— John Boehner

#believers #comeback #good #needs #some

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#deeply #i #i am #kind #new

I began to ask two questions while I was reading a book that excited me: not only what was going to happen next, but how is this done? How is it that these words on the page make me feel the way I'm feeling? This is the line of inquiry that I think happens in a child's mind, without him even knowing he has aspirations as a writer. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#aspirations #began #book #child #done

My theory about why Hemingway killed himself is that he heard his own voice; that he reached the point where he couldn't write without feeling he was repeating himself. That's the worst thing that can happen to a writer. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#feeling #happen #heard #hemingway #himself

I think my story says that, when women are given the chance and the opportunity, that we can achieve a lot. We deliver. ↗

— Sara Blakely

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Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself. ↗

— William J. H. Boetcker

#believe in yourself #depends #mainly #success #think