#eli

Gooseberries should be mainstream berries! Why are chemically fattened strawberries a thing? Why not the delicious gooseberry? ↗

— Andrew Dost

#chemically #delicious #mainstream #should #strawberries

I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence. ↗

— Theodore Dreiser

#believe #blossom #compelling #existence #fragrant

So many schools are getting rid of music programs and it's really sad because I know that when I started singing and stuff it was something that I always wanted to do and I never believed in myself to be able to do it. ↗

— Hilary Duff

#always #because #believed #getting #i

I've come to believe that whoever I am didn't start on December 14, 1946, and isn't going to end on whatever that mysterious date is in the future. ↗

— Patty Duke

#believe #come #date #december #end

When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion. ↗

— C.P. Snow

#freedom #humanity #individualism #obedience #rebellion

If someone is expressing everything I am feeling at the moment, it's probably Jon Stewart. I hear him and think, Yeah! ↗

— Sandy Duncan

#everything #expressing #feeling #hear #him

Americans do believe in progress and there is almost certainly a kernel of truth in the joke. ↗

— Alan Dundes

#believe #certainly #joke #kernel #progress

You never know what's going to happen. My mother was an English teacher. If someone had told her that I was going to write a book, she would never have believed that. So you can never say never. ↗

— Tony Dungy

#book #english #english teacher #going #had

After I convinced them that I was a harmless novelist, I actually got them to give me a tour of the harem - which is usually off limits for tourists. ↗

— Dorothy Dunnett

#after #convinced #give #give me #got

The primary nature of every human being is to be open to life and love. Being guarded, armoured, distrustful and enclosed is second nature in our culture. It is the means we adopt to protect ourselves against being hurt, but when such attitudes become characterological or structured in the personality, they constitute a more severe hurt and create a greater crippling than the one originally suffered. ↗

— Alexander Lowen

#hurt-feelings #love #theraphy #attitude