#elves

To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light. ↗

— Coventry Patmore

#courage #darkness #deny #him #light

If you took away publicists and things and people spoke for themselves, then they'd have to be responsible for their words. ↗

— Robert Pattinson

#people #publicists #responsible #spoke #their

I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don't seem to know what real pain is. I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper. ↗

— Emo Philips

#asked #caught #childbirth #either #ever

It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

#countries #draw #her #history #lessons

Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard. ↗

— Robert Jackson

#begin #coercive #compulsory #dissent #dissenters

The best musicians or sound-artists are people who never considered themselves to be artists or musicians. ↗

— Richard D. James

#best #considered #musicians #never #people

I think what makes us human - is our interconnectedness among people. It's our ability to form and maintain relationships. It's the barometer by which we call ourselves human. ↗

— Thomas Jane

#among #barometer #call #form #human

I think my dad would make an incredible president, and it would be great if he'd run again. But personally, for our family, part of me is glad that he didn't. We lost our mother recently, and we need to focus on ourselves. ↗

— Alexandra Kerry

#dad #family #focus #glad #great

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never. ↗

— Alphonse de Lamartine

#never #ones #passions #private #public

If we put the camera on ourselves, our friends and neighbors, we'll come up with some scary stuff. ↗

— Neil LaBute

#come #friends #neighbors #our #ourselves