#na

As you begin your tour of the United States, you may as well know that one American national trait which irritates many Americans and must be convenient for our critics is that we relentlessly advertise our imperfections. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

#american #begin #convenient #critics #imperfections

I knew what book we had to write, it was clear in my head; it was journals and poetry. So I passed on their offer. I told my agent this is our vision, and no one's done it this way. ↗

— Kenny Loggins

#book #clear #done #had #head

It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the human personality, and that theology never has been and never can be anything but a more and more purified mythology. ↗

— Alfred Loisy

#been #god #human #human personality #ideal

The fading light is us, and we are, for a moment so brief (...) beautiful. ↗

— Gary Shteyngart

#attitude

It was like falling off a building and suddenly, bang, you hit the bottom. The first time it happened was on an ordinary day at home. I was taking down some curtains. I took one step, turned around, took another step and then I fell and hit my head hard on the rowing machine. ↗

— Jonah Lomu

#around #bang #bottom #building #curtains

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development. ↗

— Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#arrested development #development #eternal #eternal youth #secret

Sometimes, if she was afraid, she’d take all her fear and gather it up and turn it into anger. Anger didn’t paralyze the way fear did. It was the opposite of being helpless. But it was dangerous too, because you could end up being angry all the time. ↗

— Dan Krokos

#conquer-fear #anger

One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself. ↗

— Jack London

#having #itself #nature #recoil #upon

But in this Second Work if thou extract our Air and our Fire with the phlegm water, they will the more naturally and easily be drawn out of their infernal prison, and with less losse of their Spirits, than by the former way before described. ↗

— George Ripley

#before #described #drawn #easily #extract

Sometimes you kind of lose yourself in someone else's personality. ↗

— Julie London

#kind #lose #personality #someone #sometimes