#he

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#appreciate #breaking #hearts #irony #joke

All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#life

I mean, I get letters in the mail because I had a heart defect when I was one, I had surgeries and stuff. And so you get these letters in the mail that just, they are crazy, they are just like, yes, well our son is dealing with the same thing and we saw you on TV and I mean it is such a cool thing to inspire and kind of give hope. ↗

— Shaun White

#cool #cool thing #crazy #dealing #defect

A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay for his water. I'm somewhere in between: I believe water should be free, but that water flows downhill. ↗

— Theodore White

#believes #between #conservative #downhill #everybody

No publication is a staple of life. It's not bread and water. You have to make it noteworthy in people's minds and even in their hands as they're holding it. ↗

— Timothy White

#even #hands #holding #life #make

The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil; to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil; and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so. ↗

— George Whitefield

#against #appearance #christians #duty #evil

For in Jesus Christ there is neither male nor female, bond nor free; even you may be the children of God, if you believe in Jesus. ↗

— George Whitefield

#bond #children #christ #even #female

I never paid you a compliment, Rachel, in my life. Successful love may sometimes use the language of flattery, I admit. But hopeless love, dearest, always speaks the truth. ↗

— Wilkie Collins

#life

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse. ↗

— Rebecca West

#being #horse #like #motherhood #own

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#dim #driven #existing #forward #general