#elves

Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam. ↗

— Conor Oberst

#cry #into #poets #sleep #steam

If guys don't respect themselves, they don't respect other people. That's times and personalities. And all of them are not that way. But it don't take but one or two to screw up the whole crowd. ↗

— Richard Petty

#guys #other #people #personalities #respect

Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#everybody #know #themselves

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves. ↗

— Will Rogers

#fence #few #kinds #learn #learns

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black. ↗

— Harold Rosenberg

#black #civilization #engaged #immigrant #in the past

A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power. ↗

— Mark Rutherford

#our #ourselves #power #true #true knowledge

A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#desire #educated #educating #entirely #ever

Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work. ↗

— Ann Rule

#down #express #lazy #lazy people #other

There are certainly delays in this year's agreed program, and we must quickly catch up. Let's not kid ourselves, there is still big waste in the public sector, and it must stop. ↗

— Antonis Samaras

#big #catch #certainly #delays #kid

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#be thankful #being #benefits #command #earth