#old

You can be whatever size you are, and you can be beautiful both inside and out. We're always told what's beautiful and what's not, and that's not right. ↗

— Serena Williams

#beautiful #both #inside #out #right

In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about health, mobility, access to facilities, simple routine care and attention. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#access #anxieties #anxiety #attention #care

Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old. ↗

— Rowan Williams

#anger #contemporary #culture #disgust #even

Whether something is old-fashioned or not doesn't resolve the question of whether it's true or not. I can see the temptation of simply thinking, 'Well, there's a cultural mainstream which flows neatly in one direction. You just align with it'. And that really won't do. ↗

— Rowan Williams

#cultural #direction #flows #i #i can

Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence. ↗

— Saul Williams

#aspire #because #black #criticism #current

Venus told me the other day that champions don't get nervous in tight situations. That really helped me a lot. I decided I shouldn't get nervous and just do the best I can. ↗

— Serena Williams

#champions #day #decided #get #helped

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#distant #misery #our #relation #sympathy

I don't come to tournaments to make friends, to go to parties, to hold conversations. I come to be the best, and I'm not mean and cruel and dirty. ↗

— Venus Williams

#come #conversations #cruel #dirty #friends

Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal. ↗

— Venus Williams

#based #dress #get #gold #gold medal

All the experience of the greatest city in the world could not withhold me. ↗

— Henry Williamson

#could #experience #greatest #greatest city #me