#pen

The independent girl is a person before whose wrath only the most rash dare stand, and, they, it must be confessed, with much fear and trembling. ↗

— Lou Henry Hoover

#confessed #dare #fear #girl #independent

The independent girl is truly of quite modern origin, and usually is a most bewitching little piece of humanity. ↗

— Lou Henry Hoover

#humanity #independent #little #little piece #modern

Well, I've never left my faith - but have I made a lot of mistakes? But was I fortunate that I was brought up in that Pentecostal church, where I heard about God's love and God's forgiveness. ↗

— Billy Ray Cyrus

#brought #church #faith #forgiveness #fortunate

If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war. ↗

— Bao Dai

#given #government #had #i #me

I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction writing at the University of Iowa. ↗

— John Dalton

#day-to-day #discipline #fiction #fiction writing #highly

The 6th of August in the morning we saw an opening in the land and we ran into it, and anchored in 7 and a half fathom water, 2 miles from the shore, clean sand. ↗

— William Dampier

#august #clean #fathom #half #into

A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than any of the museums we have yet established. ↗

— John Cotton Dana

#art #department #department store #easily #established

Inflated descriptions by the pen or exaggerated illustrations by the pencil. ↗

— Grace Darling

#exaggerated #illustrations #inflated #pen #pencil

As long as the appointment process is transparent and there is a broad mix of political views among the governors of the BBC, I think the public can feel confident that impartiality and independence are just as important to me as they have been to previous incumbents. ↗

— Gavyn Davies

#appointment #bbc #been #broad #confident

What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#happen #inner #luck #make #man