#ills

The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life. ↗

— Pat Conroy

#hobby #passion #skills #life

Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe. ↗

— Paul Di Filippo

#scifi #writing #writing-skills #science

It is extraordinarily entertaining to watch the historians of the past ... entangling themselves in what they were pleased to call the "problem" of Queen Elizabeth. They invented the most complicated and astonishing reasons both for her success as a sovereign and for her tortuous matrimonial policy. She was the tool of Burleigh, she was the tool of Leicester, she was the fool of Essex; she was diseased, she was deformed, she was a man in disguise. She was a mystery, and must have some extraordinary solution. Only recently has it occrurred to a few enlightened people that the solution might be quite simple after all. She might be one of the rare people were born into the right job and put that job first. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#achievements #career #clichés #double-standards #feminism

Some People..If you could buy them for what they are worth and sell them for what they think they are worth…You would never have to worry about money again. ↗

— Tim Kirkland

#life-lessons #motivation #people-skills #inspirational

And so Harry became proficient in the task of cleaning up vomit. ↗

— Julia Quinn

#humor #skills #humor

I get no kick from champagne. Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all. So, tell me why should it be true, that I get a kick out of you? ↗

— Cole Porter

#love #thrills #love

You know about fixing cars, you're athletic, and you know when to shut up." "That last one isn't a skill." "Honey, trust me. It's a skill. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#rules-of-attraction #skills #tuck #rules

That quotation about not having time to stand and stare has never applied to me. I seem to have spent a good part of my life - probably too much - in just standing and staring and I was at it again this morning. ↗

— James Herriot

#beauty #hills #beauty

I let her go. She didn't step back. “I need to either get you out of my system so I can go back to my life, or fall in love with you so much it changes my life completely. Ever since I saw you, I wanted you.” My jaw clenched. Did she know how hard that was to admit? “You break all my rules and scare me half to death. ↗

— Jade Hart

#change

I will love poeple as the people they are ↗

— Cheyenne hills

#love