#nin

If you are not leaning, no one will ever let you down. ↗

— Robert Anthony

#ever #leaning #will #you

As we moved along in a little procession, I was delighted with the illumination of the streets. So many lamps, and they burned until morning, my father said, and so people did not need to carry lanterns. ↗

— Mary Antin

#burned #carry #delighted #did #father

His struggle for a bare living left him no time to take advantage of the public evening school. In time he learned to read, to follow a conversation or lecture; but he never learned to write correctly; and his pronunciation remains extremely foreign to this day. ↗

— Mary Antin

#bare #conversation #correctly #day #evening

If education, culture, the higher life were shining things to be worshiped from afar, he had still a means left whereby he could draw one step nearer to them. ↗

— Mary Antin

#could #culture #draw #education #had

You heard on all sides that the brightest Jewish children were turned down if the examining officers did not like the turn of their noses. ↗

— Mary Antin

#children #did #down #examining #heard

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. ↗

— Antisthenes

#life #most #piece #unlearn #untrue

Everyone has their own insecurities, regardless of how you look or how people perceive you, but sometimes people give their insecurities too much power. Defining beauty is simply a matter of opinion. For me, real beauty has very little to do with the structure of someone's face or body. ↗

— Devon Aoki

#body #defining #everyone #face #give

You know, I've always thought that it would be really funny if somebody made a romantic comedy where absolutely everything went well from beginning to end. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#always #beginning #comedy #end #everything

I think maintaining relationships with my friends, my mother, my manager, they're all important. ↗

— Christina Applegate

#i #i think #important #maintaining #manager

I wasn't born thin. I train. But I would never starve myself. I mean, what is happening with women these days? I just couldn't see myself looking that thin. I like a bit of waist and leg. ↗

— Nicole Appleton

#born #days #happening #i #just