#inner

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#dinner party #doing #embroidery #essay #painting

As governor, when I visited our troops in Kuwait and Iraq, I served them Thanksgiving dinner. It was a small gesture compared to their sacrifice. ↗

— Jennifer M. Granholm

#dinner #gesture #governor #i #iraq

I was assigned to the Waffen-SS but was never involved in any crime. Besides, I always felt the need to write about my experiences in a larger context one day. This has only developed recently, now that I have overcome my inner aversion to writing an autobiography in the first place, specifically one having to do with my younger years. ↗

— Gunter Grass

#always #any #assigned #autobiography #aversion

I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world-to pronounce and to make notations of its essences with which to verify the inner eye. ↗

— Morris Graves

#external #external world #eye #i #inner

The devil had as good have let Paul alone, for he no sooner comes into prison but he falls a preaching, at which the gates of Satan's prison fly open, and poor sinners come forth. ↗

— William Gurnall

#come #comes #devil #falls #fly

I write because something inner and unconscious forces me to. That is the first compulsion. The second is one of ethical and moral duty. I feel responsible to tell stories that inspire readers to consider more deeply who they are. ↗

— David Guterson

#compulsion #consider #deeply #duty #ethical

There's a call to adventure. It's something in the inner psyche of humanity, particularly males. ↗

— Gary Gygax

#call #humanity #inner #males #particularly

Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#command #did #even #inner #last

As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#citizens #make #note #our #positive

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#angry #denial #him #his #how