#elves

I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves. ↗

— Major Taylor

#carry #courage #dreadful #fortitude #i

Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is my belief, however, that they are essential factors. ↗

— Major Taylor

#champion #condition #confidence #essential #factors

What it made me realize was that a show like this makes people look inside themselves. Because this crew guy isn't sitting there wishing the character would fight back. He's hoping that he would fight back. ↗

— Lee Tergesen

#because #character #crew #fight #guy

I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves, because then they just get labeled. ↗

— Charlize Theron

#because #celebrate #get #i #i think

I think in life we want to challenge ourselves. ↗

— Charlize Theron

#i #i think #life #ourselves #think

When I left Africa in 1966 it seemed to me to be a place that was developing, going in a particular direction, and I don't think that is the case now. And it's a place where people still kid themselves - you know, in a few years this will happen or that will happen. Well, it's not going to happen. It's never going to happen. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#case #developing #direction #few #going

I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space. ↗

— Michelangelo Antonioni

#background #cannot #characters #context #empty

We are running ourselves into a damaged earth. But I am optimistic. I believe that we can change; we must change. As a human race, we are very young and quite primitive. The sooner we learn the greatness of humanity the better off we will all be. ↗

— John Astin

#believe #better #better off #change #damaged

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. ↗

— James C. Maxwell

#flatter #human #human language #ideas #language

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire. ↗

— Confucius

#constraints #inspire #often #people #revenge