#ff

I've learned how to stay humble. I don't want to get in over my head because when you do that it takes you off your game. ↗

— Gabby Douglas

#game #get #head #how #humble

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#cheerful #dignity #effect #either #epochs

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#be different #born #different #later #man

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#advance #becomes #developed #difficult #difficulties

Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#antagonism #being #child #directed #each

Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#effort #less #mental #requires #said

You can make a very good argument that society would be much worse off if you let 10 rapists and murderers free rather than put one poor, wrongly accused accountant in prison. And so my only point on that is that it should open up an argument. It should not sort of settle one, because nobody disagrees with it. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

#accused #argument #because #disagrees #free

When I started, I knew I didn't fit any visual that anyone was going to lie down and take their clothes off about. Work doesn't come to me; I go out and look for it. ↗

— Whoopi Goldberg

#any #anyone #clothes #come #down

Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry. ↗

— William Golding

#carpentry #daily #job #level #much

Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind. ↗

— William Golding

#flying #high #out #sleep #stuff