#more

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#make #man #more #opportunities #than

I would never want to live anywhere but Baltimore. You can look far and wide, but you'll never discover a stranger city with such extreme style. It's as if every eccentric in the South decided to move north, ran out of gas in Baltimore, and decided to stay. ↗

— John Waters

#eccentric #humor #john-waters #humor

Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#need #quiet #remember #than #them

Oh, so you see some chick in baggy jeans and a hoodie, and you just have to have her so bad, you decide to repeat high school, just to get her?" "Sounds about right." He laughs. ↗

— Alyson Noel

#damen #ever #evermore #immortals #noel

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#dislike #indifference #more #much #neglect

Let's tell the truth to people. When people ask, 'How are you?' have the nerve sometimes to answer truthfully. You must know, however, that people will start avaoiding you because, they, too, have knees that pain them and heads that hurt and they don't want to know about yours. But think of it this way: If people avoid you, you will have more time to meditate and do fine research on a cure for whatever truly afflicts you. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#humanity #self-worth #social-mores #hurt

Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren’t satisfied in God and what He gives. We hunger for something more, something other. ↗

— Ann Voskamp

#creation #fall #hunger #more #satisfaction

Lula had Eminem cranked up. He was rapping about trailer park girls and how they go round the outside, and I was wondering what the heck that meant. I'm a white girl from Trenton. I don't know these things. I need a rap cheat sheet. ↗

— Janet Evanovich

#morelli #ranger #stephanie-plum #to-the-nines #cheating

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#fight #may #more #once #than

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised. ↗

— Freya Stark

#almost #always #being #comfort #great