#ours

You have to look at the discrepancy between what you hoped and imagined and the reality of yourself and all your shortcomings. ↗

— Richard Grant

#discrepancy #hoped #imagined #look #reality

First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used before that had never been used in the English language before. It's astonishing. It pours out of him. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#been #before #english #english language #eruption

If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost. ↗

— Michel Foucault

#age #been #between #classical #considerable

I took two fiction-writing courses in college and majored in literature. I felt that I had a knack though I wouldn't go so far as to call it a talent. But it scared me. I felt it was a childish thing wanting to write and that I would forget about it eventually. ↗

— Ben Fountain

#call #childish #college #courses #eventually

Supply yourself with a mental equivalent, and the thing must come to you. ↗

— Emmet Fox

#equivalent #mental #must #supply #thing

You must not allow yourself to dwell for a single moment on any kind of negative thought. ↗

— Emmet Fox

#any #dwell #kind #moment #must

Certain things should be yours to have when you work your way to the top. ↗

— Redd Foxx

#certain things #should #things #top #way

Which prophecy of Christ we see wonderfully to be verified, insomuch that the whole course of the Church to this day may seem nothing else but a verifying of the said prophecy. ↗

— John Foxe

#church #course #day #else #may

You must be passionate, you must dedicate yourself, and you must be relentless in the pursuit of your goals. If you do, you will be successful. ↗

— Steve Garvey

#goals #must #passionate #pursuit #relentless

We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves. ↗

— Paul Gauguin

#know #never #ourselves #really #stupidity