#letter

About four or five weeks after it was publicly announced I was no longer breastfeeding, I got a letter from the NHS saying they were being supportive of me, but basically, they were very disappointed I'd stopped. ↗

— Denise Van Outen

#after #announced #basically #being #disappointed

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#had #i #leisure #letter #long

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#had #i #letter #longer #made

My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#letters #men #other #people #poems

It's funny; in this era of e-mail and voice mail and all those things that even I did not grow up with, a plain old paper letter takes on amazing intimacy. ↗

— Elizabeth Kostova

#letters #funny

And I love the hate mail I get, the unsigned, misspelled letters I get telling me to go back to Russia or wherever. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#get #go #hate #i #i love

Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters. ↗

— Ernestine L. Rose

#came #dead #human #human rights #letters

All my friends and peers keep asking me when I'm going to rest - I just tell them it's another dirty four-letter word! ↗

— Dionne Warwick

#asking #dirty #four-letter #friends #going

To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#full #grasp #know #laws #letter

We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverably for ourselves and for others. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#letters #beauty