#isi

The act of exploring what the men are, and moreover the separation of the good from the evil, is visitation; and the good are then removed, and the evil are left behind. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

#behind #evil #exploring #good #left

What becomes of a man who acquires a beautiful woman, with her "beauty" his sole target? He sabotages himself. He has gained no friend, no ally, no mutual trust: She knows quite well why she has been chosen. He has succeeded in buying something: the esteem of other men who find such an acquisition impressive. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#beauty #body-image #cosmetic-surgery #cosmetics #culture

A low line of shore was visible at first on the right between the movement of the waves and fog, but when we came further it was lost sight of, and nothing could be seen but the mist curling in the rigging, and a small circle of foam. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#came #circle #could #curling #first

Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#culture #possessions #you

Last year I traveled to the Middle East to visit with troops in Kuwait, Iraq, and Afghanistan. ↗

— Kenny Marchant

#east #i #iraq #kuwait #last

Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for - because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything. ↗

— Peter Marshall

#because #clear #clear vision #fall #give

I am a vicar's daughter and still a practising member of the Church of England. ↗

— Theresa May

#church #daughter #england #i #i am

The thing is, emotion - if it's visibly felt by the writer - will go through all the processes it takes to publish a story and still hit the reader right in the gut. But you have to really mean it. ↗

— Anne McCaffrey

#felt #go #gut #hit #mean

Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is. ↗

— Fairfax Cone

#go #see #somebody #you

What I thought we ought to try to do in a book like this is to focus closely on Lincoln, himself, to see what he knew, how he knew it, how he came to make the decisions that he did, and how he implemented them. ↗

— David Herbert Donald

#came #closely #decisions #did #focus