#ily

A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#appreciated #battle #described #easily #great

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#attaining #become #desire #ease #greatest

I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#continued #did #ever #family #honest

There's a basic human weakness inherent in all people which tempts them to want what they can't have and not want what is readily available to them. ↗

— M. Kathleen Casey

#basic #human #inherent #people #readily

The first dolly track was somebody who had the idea to put the camera on a boat on a canal. So the boat would move very slowly but steadily. So they would see all that surrounds you and you'd see the landscape changing slowly. So that was the first time. ↗

— Michel Gondry

#camera #canal #changing #dolly #first

I am taking belly dancing now. My hips are double-jointed, so I can do it really easily. ↗

— Alexa Vega

#belly #dancing #easily #hips #i

When I look back over my life it's almost as if there was a plan laid out for me - from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn't afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#afford #africa #almost #back #college

Our time was most delightfully spent, in mutual Protestations of Freindship, and in vows of unalterable Love, in which we were secure from being interrupted, by intruding and disagreeable Visistors, as Augustus and Sophia had on their first Entrance in the Neighbourhood, taken due care to inform the surrounding Families, that as their happiness centered wholly in themselves, they wished for no other society. ↗

— Jane Austen

#isolation #jane-austen #love-and-friendship #satire #visitors

You know, sometimes guys work with other guys because they're buddies off the track, not necessarily because they're buddies on the track. Sometimes you've got that going against you or for you. ↗

— Jeff Gordon

#because #buddies #going #got #guys

The majority of the time I'm at home with my family, I play football three times a week. ↗

— Martin Gore

#football #home #i #majority #play