#feat

I have always been drawn to coming-of-age stories and books and movies featuring compelling young characters. ↗

— Emily Giffin

#been #books #characters #compelling #drawn

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#being #brilliant #feat #great #nothing

I try to learn from both, from features and documentaries. In both cases you have to find a way to make the camera as discreet as possible, and flexible enough to be able to capture the moment when it happens. I know from documentary how to not have a preconceived idea of what the scene could be. ↗

— Michel Gondry

#both #camera #capture #cases #could

There's a gentle sigh which descends like billowing silk upon the soul that accepts its coming death. It's a gentle pocket of air in the turbulence of everyday life... the silk settles around you as if it has been drifting towards the earth forever and has finally found it's target. The flag of defeat has been mercifully dropped and, in this action, the loss is not so bad. Defeat itself is defeated by the embrace of defeat, and death is swallowed up in victory. ↗

— Andrew Davidson

#defeat #death

No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out. ↗

— Al Gore

#glory #hard #how #loss #matter

Isolation is a self-defeating dream. ↗

— Carlos Salinas de Gortari

#isolation #self-defeating

This is the absolute truth: and on this truth our tactics must be based. All tactics that are not based on this are false, and lead the proletariat to terrible defeat. ↗

— Herman Gorter

#absolute truth #based #defeat #false #lead

The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#after #another #arrogance #centrality #common

What you see is that the most outstanding feature of life's history is a constant domination by bacteria. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#constant #domination #feature #history #life

Plumage features constitute a major component of courtship signals. ↗

— Peter R. Grant

#constitute #courtship #features #major #plumage