#ld

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#baby #go #god #opinion #should

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#legislators #poets #world

The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld. ↗

— Dorothy Thompson

#better #better idea #faith #fearlessly #force

Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#cannot #cured #democracy #engine #envy

We were the only pulsating creatures in a dead world of ice. ↗

— Frederick Albert Cook

#dead #ice #only #pulsating #were

Nobody knows what's going on to happen to anybody beside the forlorn rags of growing old ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#age

We used to build temples, and museums are about as close as secular society dares to go in facing up to the idea that a good building can change your life (and a bad one ruin it). ↗

— Alain de Botton

#buildings #museums #architecture

After all the world is indeed beautiful and if we were any other creature than man we might be continuously happy in it. ↗

— Sebastian Barry

#happiness #happy #world #beauty

So I ask you: whose job is it in this country to wake up comatose parents? Someone better do it soon because knowing television's potential for harm and keeping that knowledge to ourselves instead of sharing it with parents amounts to covering up a land mine on a busy street. ↗

— Jim Trelease

#reading #television #business

Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#holden-caulfield #stasis #change