#icu

If anyone else asked that question, O He Who Is Terrible and Great, I would have said they were an ignorant fool; in you it is a sign of the disarming simplicity which is the fount of all virtue. ↗

— Jonathan Stroud

#ignorance #ridiculous #sucking-up #simplicity

I can tie a cherry stem into a knot with my tongue. Now, if only I could do the same with my shoelaces, I wouldn’t have to banana pudding my way to success.
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— Jarod Kintz

#bizarre #cherry #knot #nonsense #ridiculous

Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice. ↗

— André Gide

#fear #ridicule #cowardice

To look in the face of hard things and keep moving forward - that's what one has to do. ↗

— Anna Godbersen

#envy

I progressed through so many different styles of music through my teen years, both as a player and a vocalist, particularly the jazz and pop of the early 20th Century. ↗

— Jeff Healey

#both #century #different #different styles #early

Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety, after all it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly. ↗

— Ali Ibn Abi Talib AS

#brilliance #darkness #difficulties #life #life

The unfolding of a story is both as exciting and as difficult for each and every novel I've written, regardless of time and place. ↗

— Rose Tremain

#difficult #each #every #exciting #i

Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something. ↗

— Clifton Fadiman

#experience #eye #firm #handshake #hiding

Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#honest #pitied #ridiculed

What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it. ↗

— John Bunyan

#ridicule #men