#hem

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things. ↗

— George Eliot

#dead #fingers #handle #happen #make

Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them. ↗

— Louise Bogan

#any #arts #cannot #exist #feeling

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#done #due #feel #half #harm

One of the things that wrong with pictures today, I think, is that so many of the people making them started out wanting to. ↗

— Peter Bogdanovich

#i think #making #many #out #people

Animals have always been a passion of mine, being able to help them because they can't help themselves, and I think that people have treated them so badly over the years and it's just not fair. It's something I feel like I can help make a difference. ↗

— Shannon Elizabeth

#always #badly #because #been #being

Critics have their purposes, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what they did. ↗

— Duke Ellington

#carried #concerning #critics #did #done

It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women - but he can think of them as he ought - as sisters, not as sparring partners. ↗

— Jim Elliot

#fellow #ignore #ought #partners #sisters

A fan would get an autograph and that was that. If we didn't tour again for five years, we wouldn't remember them. ↗

— Joe Elliott

#autograph #fan #five #get #remember

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#blame #control #decide #destiny #ecology

No one could possibly look all the time like my photographs. It is dreadfully hard to live up to them. They stare at me everywhere. ↗

— Anna Held

#dreadfully #everywhere #hard #like #live