#elves

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#carriage #could #death #held #i

We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#endowed #feeling #frequently #instruments #many

Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#am #ancestors #cultural #derive #feeling

No matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that Mom and Dad aren't cool, just to establish themselves. That's what adolescence is about. They're gonna go through that no matter what. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#adolescence #cool #create #dad #establish

The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves. ↗

— Mike Ditka

#championships #motivate #ones #themselves #want

In order to represent life on the stage, we must rub elbows with life, live ourselves. ↗

— Marie Dressler

#life #live #must #order #ourselves

Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time. ↗

— Harriet Tubman

#call #colored #every #every time #friends

I hope that readers will tear through my books because they can't stop themselves - and then, maybe, read them again and find new things there. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#because #books #find #hope #i

But the idea that women can't take care of themselves still permeates our culture. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#culture #idea #our #permeates #still

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say. ↗

— Will Durant

#always #clever #dishonest #good #good thing