#mir

Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences. ↗

— Andre Gide

#authors #aware #become #differences #disagreement

It is only the young and callow and ignorant that admire rashness. Think before you speak. Know your subject. ↗

— Cass Gilbert

#before #ignorant #know #only #rashness

That is who Barack Obama is - a person of admirable character - and that is who he has remained for me over these last four years. I have not agreed with his every decision, but never once have I seen him break his cool, lose his composure, or abandon his insightful perspective - even during the most serious and/or absurd national disasters. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#absurd #admirable #agreed #barack #barack obama

There's no reason to keep a piece of furniture in your house that is so sacred and rare that you can't put your feet up on it and a dog can't jump up on it. Likewise, a book that sits on a shelf like a piece of porcelain, only to be admired, never to be read again, is a dead book. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#again #book #dead #dog #feet

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#everyone #image #mirror #shows #their

On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#adjustment #after #case #close #couple

My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate. ↗

— Gale Gordon

#born #i #i was born #kind #miraculous

But the Spain which emerged around 1960, beginning with its economic miracle, created by the invasion of tourists, can no longer result in impassioned dedication on the part of its intellectuals, and even less on the part of foreign intellectuals. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#beginning #created #dedication #economic #emerged

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#beautiful woman #break #early #her #mirror

I admire those people who hold on to their elegance in old age but I'd rather have fun. ↗

— Heather Graham

#age #elegance #fun #have fun #hold