#miss

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#divine #knowledge #mission #perennial #possessed

It turns out umpires and judges are not robots or traffic cameras, inertly monitoring deviations from a fixed zone of the permissible. They are humans. ↗

— Eric Liu

#fixed #humans #judges #monitoring #out

I've missed being able to flip in the air, flip on the beam and swing on the bars. ↗

— Nastia Liukin

#air #bars #beam #being #flip

I think television often has dismissed younger people. They figure, well, they're not really watching news, that's not our audience. ↗

— Kurt Loder

#dismissed #figure #i #i think #news

I went to the store and bought lady fingers, when I got home I noticed one of the fingers was missing so I went back to the store and the manager was nice enough to give me the finger. ↗

— Jay London

#bought #enough #finger #fingers #give

There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#asking #because #black #dismiss #dyke

I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we. ↗

— Konrad Lorenz

#between #civilized #civilized man #found #higher

I am surprised that I cannot recall whether my desire to become a minister transformed itself into a wish to lead the more militant life of missionary, by a slow process or suddenly. ↗

— Pierre Loti

#become #cannot #desire #i #i am

I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me. ↗

— Clare Boothe Luce

#define #died #enemy #helped #i

To see, and to show, is the mission now undertaken by Life. ↗

— Henry R. Luce

#mission #now #see #show #undertaken