#elle

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#conviction #excellent #into #itself #never

It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#gift #heavenly #highest #hung #intellect

You're beautiful, every part of you. I love your hair, the way it looks, the way it feels. I love touching it, smelling it. I love the way you wrinkle your nose when you laugh. It makes me laugh, too, every time. And I love watching you eat. Sometimes you can't shovel it in fast enough, but when you get interested in a conversation, you forget there's anything in front of you. God knows, I love making love with you. I can't even talk about that without wanting you. I love your pathetic attachment to those seniors. I love how hard you work. ↗

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#heath #love #match-me-if-you-can #beauty

To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is. ↗

— Dick Cavett

#label #me #misunderstanding

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#break #establish #great #great minds #intellectual

While short sellers probably will never be popular on Wall Street, they often are the ones wearing the white hats when it comes to looking for and identifying the bad guys! ↗

— James Chanos

#bad guys #comes #guys #hats #identifying

I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#day #every #every day #excellent #give

I am a big 'Ellen' fan. I have been one for quite a long time now. I used to do the local news talk shows with her in San Francisco, when we were both still kids. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#been #big #both #ellen #fan

My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953. ↗

— Leon Uris

#best #book #cry #first #nine

I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#because #clearly #european #i #intellectual