#off

Be yourself. Follow your instincts. Success depends, at least in part, on the ability to "carry it off." ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#be yourself #carry #depends #follow #instincts

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#ignore #like #offer #own #return

There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#been #difficulty #examining #history #how

Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes. ↗

— John Ruskin

#dead #drop #faults #good #imitate

No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart. ↗

— John Ruskin

#deformity #ever #heart #kind #manners

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#endured #liked #offensive #patient #people

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#belief #cambridge #course #everything #gradually

We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. ↗

— Dora Russell

#heeded #offering #wisdom

I know I come off differently than I think of myself. I'm always surprised by what people say about me. ↗

— Kurt Russell

#always #come #differently #i #i think

What does it feel like to be a parent? What does it feel like to be a child? And that's what stories do. They bring you there. They offer a dramatic explanation, which is always different from an expository explanation. ↗

— Richard Russo

#bring #child #different #does #dramatic