#lou

The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#animal #compared #distortion #facts #harmless

I think it's important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state - meaning surround yourself with positive people, not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do. ↗

— Heidi Klum

#everything #get #i #i think #important

Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties. ↗

— Gene Tierney

#because #both #faults #i #i think

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea. ↗

— Paul Tillich

#leaves #moving #murmuring #respond #sea

A baby is a loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. ↗

— Ronald Knox

#end #loud #loud noise #noise #other

A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. ↗

— Ronald Knox

#loud #loud noise #noise #other #responsibility

I love Louisiana. It's amazing. ↗

— Johnny Knoxville

#i #i love #louisiana #love

That's the way I got along in life. I don't ever remember being particularly jealous of anybody, because I figured if I can't do it myself, I don't deserve to get it. ↗

— Clyde Tombaugh

#along #anybody #because #being #deserve

Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#fiction #flourish #genre #genres #literary

Suddenly, at about ten o'clock, a dull thud sounded somewhere far away from us, and simultaneously we saw a small white round cloud about half a mile ahead of us where the shrapnel had exploded. The battle had begun. ↗

— Fritz Kreisler

#ahead #away #battle #begun #clock