#isa

In this world, who can do a thing, will not; And who would do it, cannot, I perceive: Yet the will's somewhat — somewhat, too, the power — And thus we half-men struggle. ↗

— Robert Browning

#incapacity #power #will #men

…and Aunt Jo retired, satisfied with the success of her last trap to catch a sunbeam. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#louisa-may-alcott #men

Are you kidding? I'm a terrible cook, but John is a really great one. Literally, I never cook. The whole time we were dating, I prepared two officially romantic meals. Both of them were such disasters that he begs me never to go into the kitchen again. ↗

— Rebecca Romijn

#begs #both #cook #dating #disasters

Let me start by saying that I do not enjoy nor relish the partisan role of attack dog. I never found any fun in that. I don't think it's constructive. I don't intend to become that here in the Senate. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#attack #become #constructive #dog #enjoy

A few years ago the Deists denied the inspiration of the Bible on account of its cruelty. At the same time they worshiped what they were pleased to call the God of Nature. Now we are convinced that Nature is as cruel as the Bible; so that, if the God of Nature did not write the Bible, this God at least has caused earthquakes and pestilence and famine, and this God has allowed millions of his children to destroy one another. So that now we have arrived at the question -- not as to whether the Bible is inspired and not as to whether Jehovah is the real God, but whether there is a God or not. ↗

— Robert G. Ingersoll

#cruelty #deism #disaster #god #jehovah

You can tell a really wonderful quote by the fact that it's attributed to a whole raft of wits. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#pith #quotations #quotes #wit #imagination

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are ↗

— Kurt Cobain

#inspirational #misattributed #self-acceptance #inspirational

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#achievement #inspirational #misattributed #modesty #recognition

If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear it off. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#disappointment #inspiration #inspirational

Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it. ↗

— Maimonides

#inspirational #truth #inspirational