#iron

She had a flower tattoo on her wrist; "What does that mean?" he asked her. "Absolutely nothing," she said, "it's just a flower. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#inspirational #life-and-living #sweet-irony #sweetness #tattoo

I BELIEVE EVERYONE IS SPECIAL . . . BUT SOME PEOPLE THINK . . . . IT'S JUST ANOTHER WAY OF SAYING NO-ONE IS ↗

— ASHISH RANJAN

#choice #focus #goal #happiness #humour

The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#free-inquiry #free-speech #irony #intelligence

One of the things that I've always thought I would like to do is to develop an environmental index. Then people can measure their own environmental performance on an index as they do in other ways. ↗

— Maurice Strong

#develop #environmental #i #index #like

Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#design #environmental #great #great problems #problems

Often, city fathers blamed prostitutes for the disease, and some threatened to brand their cheeks with hot iron if they did not desist from their vices. ↗

— Peter Lewis Allen

#brand #cheeks #city #desist #did

Screenwriting is like ironing. You move forward a little bit and go back and smooth things out. ↗

— Paul Thomas Anderson

#bit #forward #go #ironing #like

No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place. ↗

— Isaac Babel

#heart #iron #just #period #pierce

It seemed ironic that Lowell Levine and I, who were both Jewish, were going over to identify the remains of a man who was so anti-Semitic. ↗

— Michael Baden

#both #going #i #identify #ironic

The horrors of the Second World War, the chilling winds of the Cold War and the crushing weight of the Iron Curtain are little more than fading memories. Ideals that once commanded great loyalty are now taken for granted. ↗

— Jan Peter Balkenende

#cold #cold war #commanded #crushing #curtain