#end

In listing these tendencies making for a new world, we must not forget developments in the religious or spiritual thinking and feeling of mankind, where also we feel a strong unifying trend. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#developments #feel #feeling #forget #listing

The future will be determined in part by happenings that it is impossible to foresee; it will also be influenced by trends that are now existent and observable. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#determined #existent #foresee #future #happenings

The question whether the long effort to put an end to war can succeed without another major convulsion challenges not only our minds but our sense of responsibility. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#challenges #convulsion #effort #end #long

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#control #describing #every #function #language

In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#glorification #in the end #makes #nothing #other

War would end if the dead could return. ↗

— Stanley Baldwin

#could #dead #end #return #would

I mean, first of all, let me say whichever superhero first came up with the idea of wearing a cape, he wasn't really onto anything good. The number of times I'm treading on that damn thing or I throw a punch and it ends up covering my whole head. It's really not practical. ↗

— Christian Bale

#came #cape #covering #damn #damn thing

I have this theory that, depending on your attitude, your life doesn't have to become this ridiculous charade that it seems so many people end up living. ↗

— Christian Bale

#become #depending #end #i #life

But I learned that there's a certain character that can be built from embarrassing yourself endlessly. If you can sit happy with embarrassment, there's not much else that can really get to ya. ↗

— Christian Bale

#certain #character #else #embarrassing #embarrassment

A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#fears #hour #joys #life #long