#er

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#away #cannot #like #ourselves #really

Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#dams #even #give #never #never give up

The original settlers of Alaska apparently were Russian. ↗

— Jeff Goldblum

#apparently #original #russian #settlers #were

It's mysterious what attracts you to a person. ↗

— Jeff Goldblum

#mysterious #person #you

One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#dealing #extreme #generally #ills #social

When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue that transportation hadn't changed since ancient times. An imperial messenger on the Roman roads could get from Rome to London even faster in A.D. 100 than in 1750. But by 1850, and even more obviously today, all of that has changed. ↗

— Walter Russell Mead

#about #ancient #ancient times #argue #century

I don't go to these places where there are belly dancers and this and that. ↗

— Jeff Goldblum

#dancers #go #i #places #these

I thought, this is a good sign. There's something perfect and right about this. ↗

— Jeff Goldblum

#good #good sign #i #perfect #right

I, uh, don't think I'm, y'know, so different than your average, y'know, average. ↗

— Jeff Goldblum

#different #i #know #than #think

It's nice to play a character that has a soulful, dependent, close relationship. It must mean my character is interesting in some way. ↗