#men

Most of us women like men, you know; it's just that we find them a constant disappointment. ↗

— Clare Short

#disappointment #find #just #know #like

I was on my own at Wellesley, surrounded by a lot of young women who were motivated and intellectually curious. I started to read because I was required to do so for class, but I soon found myself enjoying the seclusion of the library. I came to see reading as an important way to learn about people, including myself. ↗

— Elisabeth Shue

#because #came #class #curious #enjoying

Have you been reading those books that clueless illiterate Duja in charge of the lending library lets you borrow?’ ‘No, Ma.’ ‘Then what put you in mind of devils possessing nuns to take over the church? ↗

— Renita D'Silva

#humour #india #indian-fiction #women-s-fiction #funny

To change the world takes time; to change yourself takes courage. ↗

— R.S. Lowel

#positive-thinking #self-improvement #change

This is peculiarly an age in which each of us may, if he do but search diligently, find the literature suited to his mental powers. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#brain-power #intelligence #literature #mental-power #reading

Jane, this young man is Jacob, my oldest son. It’s no secret that a headmistress’s biggest challenge is her family. Jacob, say hello to Jane.” “Hello to Jane,” he parroted, pulling out the pockets of his shorts in a silly curtsey. I couldn’t decide if it was the dumbest thing I’d ever seen, or the funniest, so I stared back at him. ↗

— Marta Acosta

#stupid-funny #family

We cannot expect to grow if we are too afraid or unwilling to change and face challenges. When we exit our everyday, mundane lifestyles to do something different we can experience growth, undiscovered strength, and new abilities within ourselves. ↗

— Ashley Ormon

#growth #self-improvement #change

This homage has been rendered not to me - for the Polish soil is fertile and does not lack better writers than me - but to the Polish achievement, the Polish genius. ↗

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

#been #better #does #fertile #genius

John Foster Dulles had called on me in his capacity as Secretary of State, and he had exhausted every argument to persuade me to place Cambodia under the protection of the South East Asia Treaty Organization. ↗

— Norodom Sihanouk

#asia #called #cambodia #capacity #east

On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men. ↗

— Ignazio Silone

#civilization #culture #found #group #living