#feat

Though actually the work of man's hands - or, more properly speaking, the work of his travelling feet, - roads have long since come to seem so much a part of Nature that we have grown to think of them as a feature of the landscape no less natural than rocks and trees. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#come #feature #feet #grown #hands

So, Mexico, Brazil, they wanted their national culture to be 'blackish' - really brown, a beautiful brown blend. And finally, I discovered that in each of these societies the people at the bottom are the darkest skinned with the most African features. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#beautiful #blend #bottom #brazil #brown

After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith; they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

#after #armed #defeat #desperate #exile

Although there were only about 24 episodes made it seems to run forever. They take a couple of episodes and put them together, making a feature film once in a while. I had good fun making the series. ↗

— Gil Gerard

#although #couple #episodes #feature #feature film

A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#ear #feather #intellect #laws #limit

There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat. ↗

— Ann Landers

#defeat #honor #might #much #success

Dreaming is one thing, and working towards the dream is one thing, but working with expectations in mind is very self-defeating. ↗

— Michael Landon

#dreaming #expectations #mind #one thing #self-defeating

Writing fiction is... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it. ↗

— Rose Wilder Lane

#capture #defeated #effort #endless #fiction

Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. ↗

— Doug Larson

#enough #feats #greatest #impossible #know

Unless you're involved with thinking about what you're doing, you end up doing the same thing over and over, and that becomes tedious and, in the end, defeating. ↗

— Sol LeWitt

#becomes #defeating #doing #end #in the end