#mis

I remember when an editor at the National Geographic promised to run about a dozen of my landscape pictures from a story on the John Muir trail as an essay, but when the group of editors got together, someone said that my pictures looked like postcards. ↗

— Galen Rowell

#dozen #editor #editors #essay #geographic

My biggest problem will be lack of match toughness but I am a positive, optimistic person. ↗

— Greg Rusedski

#biggest #biggest problem #i #i am #lack

Learn to recognize omens, and follow them ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#paulo-coelho #philosophical #the-alchemist #inspirational

My mission has always been to do something that suits everybody. ↗

— Raphael Saadiq

#been #everybody #mission #something #suits

From imperial, economic and ideological causes, many cultures are the inheritors, and hence the prisoners, of attitudes of scorn and disdain for other faiths – outlooks which are not ennobling to anyone. ↗

— Idries Shah

#god #islam #jesus #mohammed #muslims

It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#misfortunes #mode #others #thought

Feminism is a political mistake. Feminism is a mistake made by women's intellect, a mistake which her instinct will recognize. ↗

— Valentine de Saint-Point

#her #instinct #intellect #made #mistake

When I accepted the commission, I had something of an epiphany in the research I did about the agency, actually the science of espionage. I realized there is a connection between the sciences and the invisible forces of man. ↗

— James Sanborn

#accepted #actually #agency #between #commission

Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one. ↗

— William Wycherley

#finding #mistress #new #next #old

It was such a relief. I lived in fear of being found out. Now it's given me a whole new mission in life. ↗

— Dick Sargent

#fear #found #given #i #life