#oldness

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

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

[C. S. Lewis] showed me that newness is no virtue and oldness is no vice. Truth and beauty and goodness are not determined by when they exist. Nothing is inferior for being old, and nothing is valuable for being modern. This has freed me from the tyranny of novelty and opened for me the wisdom of the ages. ↗

— John Piper

#oldness #age

In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold. ↗

— John Leonard

#bad #bad times #boldness #cellars #hand

Legend has it that when God created me, he gave me a big distinctive voice, a lot of boldness and no heart. ↗

— Ethel Merman

#boldness #created #distinctive #gave #god

You know, that kind of coldness, you know. And I think, yeah, I think that definitely helped. The female characters on the show, you can see some of them wanting to know what makes him tick. And I guess that translates into some of the fans outside. You know? ↗

— Matt Robinson

#coldness #definitely #fans #female #female characters

Even God lends a hand to honest boldness. ↗

— Menander

#even #god #hand #honest #lends

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#because #boldness #even #existence #fear