#ills

I was trying to figure out how to use the skills I had developed in the world of social change. ↗

— Chris Hughes

#developed #figure #had #how #i

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#admire #appalling #assembly #easy #everything

There is nothing false or arrogant about German pride in German technical and business skills. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

#arrogant #business #false #german #nothing

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#able #attractions #bully #cheat #feeling

The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#god #life #man #slay #struggle

They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills. ↗

— Mahalia Jackson

#i #paying #soon #started #success

At the end of the program, I tried to talk to the kids a little bit about life skills. ↗

— Troy Vincent

#bit #end #i #i tried #kids

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#cheerfulness #clouds #daylight #fills #flash

A man can do all things if he but wills them. ↗

— Leon Battista Alberti

#man #them #things #wills

No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you. ↗

— Sholom Aleichem

#even #get #go #got #how