#lent

Nothing to mountaineering, just a little physical endurance, a good deal of brains, lots of practice, and plenty of warm clothing. ↗

— Annie Smith Peck

#clothing #deal #endurance #good #good deal

Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty. ↗

— Edmund Pendleton

#battle #hopes #our #peace #pervaded

It's up to each person's parents whether they think it's too frightening or too violent, how much their kids can handle, what they want to teach them, what they want to show them. ↗

— Gina Philips

#frightening #handle #how #kids #much

It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkies instead of the other way around. ↗

— Mary Pickford

#been #grown #had #instead #logical

All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest. ↗

— Beatrix Potter

#almost #behave #believe #causes #endless

It is time to put more cops on the beat and remove our most violent repeat offenders from our neighborhood streets. ↗

— Bill Schuette

#cops #more #most #neighborhood #offenders

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#anyone #caprice #fates #inoculated #intelligence

I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early poetry, and bad poets publish it. Thankfully I gave up rather quickly. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#poetry #talent #youth #age

Liberace was certainly master and commander of the ivories ~ he is the only pianist I can watch or listen to without suffering a case of 'Stagefright Sympathy Sickness'. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#concerts #entertainers #entertainment #funny #gifted-people

Pains are not to be relieved Sorrows are not to fade away a slight change in the vision may bring a new experience ↗

— Rixa White

#experience #oceans-of-illusion #pain #silentaria #sorrow