#ene

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#distinctly #effect #general #happiest #impression

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#assurance #even #generally #happens #keeps

Bush's choice of Dick Cheney as his running mate is clear confirmation of the policies he would promote and the nominations he would make to an already closely divided U.S. Supreme Court. ↗

— Patricia Ireland

#bush #cheney #choice #clear #closely

When you are old, at evening candle-lit beside the fire bending to your wool, read out my verse and murmur, "Ronsard writ this praise for me when I was beautiful." And not a maid but, at the sound of it, though nodding at the stitch on broidered stool, will start awake, and bless love's benefit whose long fidelities bring Time to school. I shall be thin and ghost beneath the earth by myrtle shade in quiet after pain, but you, a crone, will crouch beside the hearth mourning my love and all your proud disdain. And since what comes to-morrow who can say? Live, pluck the roses of the world to-day. ↗

— Pierre de Ronsard

#helene #love #beauty

The Young Women's Christian Association is nourished by its roots in Christianity and, at the same time, over the years, it's been enriched by beliefs and values from all kinds of places, even, in fact, strengthened by our diversity. ↗

— Patricia Ireland

#been #beliefs #christian #christianity #diversity

They plan to ride into the White House on the Sweet Talk Express. Well, think again. Bush and Cheney are not compassionate conservatives. They are ruthless reactionaries. ↗

— Patricia Ireland

#bush #cheney #compassionate #conservatives #express

An acting assistant stage manager in a theater in Canterbury, a rep theater. A small wage but just enough to get by on, and I made props and I walked on, and I changed scenery, and I realized that I just loved it. ↗

— Jeremy Irons

#assistant #canterbury #changed #enough #get

There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive. ↗

— Lara St. John

#benefactors #canada #incentive

I finished my studies in England, I opened my studio in London, and the first one-man exhibit I had on Bond Street, which was opened by the Austrian ambassador. ↗

— Felix de Weldon

#austrian #bond #england #exhibit #finished

A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use. ↗

— Washington Irving

#edge #grows #keener #only #sharp