#elle

I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions. ↗

— Edward Hopper

#believe #canvas #emotions #force #great

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#agreeable #almost #boredom #comes #excessive

The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#existence #extinction #holds #intellectual #much

Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves. ↗

— Dean Inge

#always #attraction #contains #element #faith

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#enemies #friends #intellect #looks #beauty

Ian's sense of right and wrong overwhelms me. Not a single other person .... I know possesses such an unshakable sense of morality. Its more than unbelievable. It's frightening. To offer without strings something all men crave, and be rejected by him is incomprehensible. Think I'll have to kick Kaeleigh's ass. Does she have any idea what it means .... to be so treasured? He has built a pedestal for her so tall that she is afraid to be lifted atop it, because to fall would mean certain death. But oh, she would rise far, far beyond fear. ↗

— Ellen Hopkins

#ian #identical #kaeleigh #raeanne #death

But I watch my brothers give their hearts away and I think, Don’t you know better? Hearts are breakable. And I think even when you heal, you’re never what you were before. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#isabelle-lightwood #city

What's the point in wasting a perfectly good brick wall when you have someone to throw against it, that's what I always say. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#isabelle-lightwood #city

Death. What a brief word for the extinguishing of life. To be no more. To have days cut off and at their end. To never again..........anything. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#end #finality #grief #richelle #richelle-goodrich

Intellectuals, academics, writers and poets were an important force in the early groups of volunteers. They had the means to get to Spain and were accustomed to travelling, whereas very few workers had left British shores. ↗

— Bill Alexander

#accustomed #british #early #few #force