#oldness

They're so cold, these scholars! May lightning strike their food so that their mouths learn how to eat fire! ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#education #elitism #higher-education #scholars #scholarship

Past boldness is no assurance of future boldness. Boldness demands continual reliance on God's spirit. ↗

— Andy Stanley

#god #inspirational #reliance #inspirational

Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence. ↗

— John Dryden

#impudence #knaves #men

So I'll be bold, as well as strong, and use my head alongside my heart. ↗

— Mumford & Sons

#head #heart #music #strength #music

I wish I could tell you how lonely I am. How cold and harsh it is here. Everywhere there is conflict and unkindness. I think God has forsaken this place. I believe I have seen hell and it's white, it's snow-white. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#conflict #despair #harshness #hell #industrialization

People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress. ↗

— Dale Turner

#boldness #brakes #lack #make #mistakes

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen. ↗

— Herodotus

#being #better #boldness #cowardly #evils

The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

#cold #coldness #degrees #desire #desires

Nature hath given not only to the highest, but also to the inferior, classes of the people of this nation, a boldness and confidence in speaking and answering, even in the presence of their princes and chieftains. ↗

— Giraldus Cambrensis

#answering #boldness #classes #confidence #even

I was desperate really for people not to accuse me of coldness. It was taboo. ↗

— Thomas Dolby

#coldness #desperate #i #me #people