#into

He who is jealous, is never jealous of what you see, with what is imagined is enough. ↗

— Jacinto Benavente

#jealousy #imagination

Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold. ↗

— Mark Twain

#educated #everything #gold #into #iron

On faith’s battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation’s hot rage. ↗

— Aberjhani

#forgiveness #intolerance #national-poetry-month #peace #popular-quotes

Ah, well..." I started to say, and then stopped. So that was where he was going; I'd heard it before. Richard had told me that I'd not been standing in my mother's shoes in 1942, when I was born; he'd said I couldn't, or shouldn't, judge her. It was my not forgiving her that irked him-it was my intolerance of her intolerance that bugged him. ↗

— John Irving

#forgiveness

There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#beat #bitter #days #freedom #head

Wenn wir uns erinnern, wie rassisch, religiös und politisch Verfolgte, die vom sicheren Tod bedroht waren, oft vor geschlossenen Grenzen anderer Staaten standen, werden wir vor denen, die heute wirklich verfolgt sind und bei uns Schutz suchen, die Tür nicht verschließen." [Ansprache am 8. Mai 1985 in der Gedenkstunde im Plenarsaal des Deutschen Bundestages] ↗

— Richard von Weizsäcker

#bigotry #freedom #intolerance #persecution #politics

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd. ↗

— Epicurus

#forced #into #most #should #time

Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago. ↗

— Eamon de Valera

#become #been #began #dragged #fortnight

If we survive this, I'm going to have a very serious talk with the techs back home about what constitutes "need to know. ↗

— Evan C. Currie

#home

She just threatened to throw the next man who shoots at you out the window. Megan is awake. She offered to help. God, Trent, what is it with you and women? ↗

— Kim Harrison

#into-the-woods #jenks #the-hollows #trent-kalamack #humor