#immortal

The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write. ↗

— Hannah Cowley

#charms #could #immortal #inspired #more

Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them. ↗

— Francis I

#famous #footing #immortality #partake #persons

Movies are immortal art - the first new art since Greek drama. ↗

— Eric Johnston

#drama #first #greek #immortal #movies

The Boomers will eventually have to accept that it is not possible to stay forever young or to stop aging. But it is possible, by committing to show up for others in community after community, to earn a measure of immortality. ↗

— Eric Liu

#after #aging #boomers #committing #community

Are your principles not engraved in all hearts, and in order to learn your laws is it not enough to go back into oneself and listen to the voice of one's conscience in the silence of the passions? There you have true philosophy. Let us learn to be satisfied with that, and without envying the glory of those famous men who are immortalized in the republic of letters, let us try to set between them and us that glorious distinction which people made long ago between two great peoples: one knew how to speak well; the other how to act well. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#athens #conscience #ethics #immortality #morality

He jerked back. "What is this? Be like you were with me the other times! When you melted for me." "That was before I fully understood what a nasty piece of work you are." "Because of a few shifter beheadings? Come on, Lizvetta, it's not as if I went around cock-slapping gnomes." Her jaw dropped. ↗

— Kresley Cole

#lothaire #immortality

You are a monster.” Kanin’s deep voice droned in my head again, as I forced myself to move, to walk away. “You will always be a monster, there is no turning back from it. But what type of monster you become is entirely up to you. ↗

— Julie Kagawa

#immortality

Never break a promise to an animal. They're like babies—they won't understand. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#promises #immortality

That's immortality my darlings" Spencer said. ↗

— Sara Shepard

#sara-shepard #spencer #immortality

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. ↗

— Albert Pike

#alone #dies #done #immortal #others