#lend

The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#advocate #challenge #conviction #coup #even

I get paid to do the thing I love most, and maybe that makes blending into the crowd impossible sometimes, but I wouldn't trade it for the world. ↗

— Anna Paquin

#crowd #get #i #i love #impossible

I'm so organised. I never screw up. I've done it maybe twice before. I check my calendar seven times a day. ↗

— Anna Paquin

#calendar #check #day #done #i

With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch. ↗

— Walter Pater

#awful #brevity #desperate #effort #experience

I'm a big believer in everybody being themselves. If not doing a swimsuit calendar is yourself, that's great. But if doing a swimsuit calendar is yourself, then you should be able to do it. What I do outside the car adds to who I am and expresses a different side of me. ↗

— Danica Patrick

#adds #am #being #believer #big

American Splendor is just an ongoing journal. It's an ongoing autobiography. I started it when I was in my early 30s, and I just keep going. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#autobiography #early #going #i #journal

Theory is splendid but until put into practice, it is valueless. ↗

— James Cash Penney

#practice #put #splendid #theory #until

I blend my green drink every morning. I also fix my son a full-on American breakfast with bacon and toast. ↗

— Liz Phair

#american #bacon #blend #breakfast #drink

In outward show so splendid and so vain; 'tis but a gilded block without a brain. ↗

— Phaedrus

#brain #gilded #outward #show #splendid

I particularly recognize that reasonable people can disagree as to what that proper balance or blend is between privacy and security and safety. ↗

— John Pistole

#between #blend #disagree #i #particularly