#gen

But an intelligent man like you would know that to live in an unrealistic hope is a very foolish way to spend a life." - Lena Gray ↗

— Maeve Binchy

#waiting #intelligence

The Dandy is the highest form of existence attainable by the human form. His life is exclusively dedicated to dressing exquisitely, parading about the fashionable boroughs of splendid cities and and holding forth at his club, where he dispenses witticism as readily as the vulgaroisie utters its banal platitudes. The only species of 'work' this singular Chap might engage in would consist of discussing buttonhole stitching with his tailor and performing his ablutions until the morning has been well aired enough for him to step into it. ↗

— Gustav Temple and Vic Darkwood

#britain #chap #chappism #chaps #civility

Keep your thoughts and your mind always going forward ahead on the roads of life, just as you would do driving your car. ↗

— Timothy Pina

#legend-of-the-peace-panda #life

Your mistakes... Should always guide you to a better life And Not define you to help keep you in the past ↗

— Timothy Pina

#legend-of-the-peace-panda #life

Far from being incompatible, politics and Christianity are, in reality, inseparable. What don't mix are Christianity and social apathy. (p. 117) ↗

— Steve Chalke

#intelligence

You don't know how you haunt and bewilder me. You don't know how the cursed carelessness that is over-officious in helping me at every other turning of my life WON'T help me here. You have struck it dead, I think, and I sometimes wish you had struck me dead along with it. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#eugene-wrayburn #our-mutual-friend #life

What I will no longer accept is the mediocre life of a modest little gentleman. ↗

— Joan Miró

#gentleman #life #modest #life

I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirm the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#saints #spirit #spiritual-life #unregenerate #worth

The cool part about working for Disney is that they've allowed me to be a change agent. ↗

— Christy Romano

#agent #allowed #change #cool #disney

I can see,’ Miss Emily said, ‘that it might look as though you were simply pawns in a game. It can certainly be looked at like that. But think of it. You were lucky pawns. There was a certain climate and now it’s gone. You have to accept that sometimes that’s how things happen in the world. People’s opinions, their feelings, they go one way, then the other. It just so happens you grew up at a certain point in this process.’ ‘It might be just some trend that came and went,’ I said. ‘But for us, it’s our life. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#time #younger-generation #youth #life