#light

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#bear #below #coward #equal #ever

Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, and Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast. ↗

— George William Russell

#fawn #followed #hunter #night #timid

A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take a perverse delight in doing the wrong thing. ↗

— Richard Russo

#characters #delight #doing #know #lot

I'm delighted by how Nobody's Fool turned out. It was a rare movie. ↗

— Richard Russo

#fool #how #i #movie #nobody

Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight. ↗

— William Safire

#basis #civilized #delight #how #knowing

When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#even #finding #finding yourself #forget #last

If I'm interrupted, it's just a minor inconvenience, but not a disaster, because it's easy to get back where I was: that is, the paint has not changed consistency; the light has not moved. ↗

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

#because #changed #consistency #disaster #easy

The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly. ↗

— J. D. Salinger

#being #constantly #could #make #slightly

Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits. ↗

— Sallust

#concealment #descendants #distinguished #either #forbid

I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#aversion #cerebral #deep #deep down #down