#elves

Social paralysis is strong and stands firmly in the way of change on the ground level. As allies, we have to prepare ourselves to step into the fire when necessary, even - and especially - when said fire is merely a still-lit cigarette tossed carelessly onto the street. ↗

— Jack Antonoff

#carelessly #change #cigarette #especially #even

American people have the ability to laugh at themselves. It is one of the things that makes this country the great country that it is. ↗

— Desi Arnaz

#american #american people #country #great #great country

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#barbarians #distributes #into #itself #just

It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh. ↗

— David Bailey

#few #gogh #like #only #themselves

The brightest light casts the darkest shadow. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#books #cyberpunk #dark #dark-elves #ego

The way to Elfin is found on the path That weaves through the Misty Forest That lives between the Mountain of Vision And the River of Reality ↗

— Silver Elves

#esoteric #pagan #spiritual-quotes #love

A song she heard Of cold that gathers Like winter's tongue Among the shadows It rose like blackness In the sky That on volcano's Vomit rise A Stone of ruin From burn to chill Like black moonrise Her voice fell still... ↗

— Robert Fanney

#elf #elves #fantasy #luthiel #magic

The United States' administrations... must recognize that Iran is a big power. Having said that, we consider ourselves to be a human force and a cultural power and hence a friend of other nations. We have never sought to dominate others or to violate the rights of any other country. ↗

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#big #consider #country #cultural #dominate

If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do? ↗

— Christiane Amanpour

#how #no respect #our #ourselves #respect

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#leads #our #poetry #rational #refreshed