#mira

I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play. ↗

— Philip Warren Anderson

#admiration #architecture #art #culture #existence

Viktor was swinging a leather duffle and wearing a black Adidas tracksuit and his favorite brown UGG slippers with a hole in the toe. "Worn and old, just like Viv," he'd say when Frankie made fun of them, and then his wife would swat him on the arm. But Frankie knew he was just joking, because Viveka was the type of woman you wished was in a magazine just so you could stare at her violet-colored eyes and shiny black hair without being called a stalker or a freak. ↗

— Lisi Harrison

#beauty #clothing #daughter #husband #joke

The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#believe #believing #enough #law #miracles

In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles. ↗

— H. C. Bailey

#miracles #must #order #realist #you

This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble. ↗

— Ludwig van Beethoven

#admirable #face #man #mark #really

Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#another #our #ourselves #polite #recognition

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#does #figurehead #part #talking #thinking

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married. ↗

— Katharine Hepburn

#ahead #get #get married #give #go

There are no miracles in agricultural production. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

#miracles #production

A grandchild is a miracle, but a renewed relationship with your own children is even a greater one. ↗

— T. Berry Brazelton

#children #even #greater #miracle #own