#long

In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin. ↗

— Ziyi Zhang

#china #consider #know #known #long

Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#benefit #both #exercise #free #free speech

The nation will benefit in the long term if it continues to be open to foreign expertise. This will help the country to establish its business culture and environment faster, based on international best practice. ↗

— Hassanal Bolkiah

#benefit #best #business #continues #country

To sing along with Stevie Wonder, you had to make your voice do things it was not accustomed to doing. ↗

— Michael Bolton

#along #doing #had #make #sing

House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#go #guests #house #leave #long

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#content #lacking #nothing #realize #rejoice

If we think about the obvious long enough, it dissolves. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#dissolves #enough #long #obvious #think

With Zeppelin, I tried to play something different every night in my solos. I'd play for 20 minutes but the longest ever was 30 minutes. It's a long time, but whenI was playing it seemed to fly by. ↗

— John Bonham

#different #ever #every #every night #fly

If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#board #corridor #direction #other #running

And in fact the artist's experience lies so unbelievably close to the sexual, to its pain and its pleasure, that the two phenomena are really just different forms of one and the same longing and bliss. And if instead of "heat" one could say "sex";- sex in the great, pure sense of the word, free of any sin attached to it by the Church, - then his art would be very great and infinitely important. His poetic power is great and as strong as a primal instinct; it has its own relentless rhythms in itself and explodes from him like a volcano. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#artist #bliss #longing #sex #art