#people

[W]hat is always overlooked is that although the poor want to be rich, it does not follow that they either like the rich or that they in any way want to emulate their characters which, in fact, they despise. Both the poor and the rich have always found precisely the same grounds on which to complain about each other. Each feels the other has no manners, is disloyal, corrupt, insensitive - and has never put in an honest day's work in its life. ↗

— Elaine Dundy

#rich-people #life

True republicanism is the sovereignty of the people. There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate. ↗

— Marquis de Lafayette

#entire nation #nation #natural #people #republicanism

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#best #best part #end #exposition #lean

Those are big collisions, Hally. They make for a lot of bruises. People get hurt in all that bumping, and we're sick and tired of it now. It's been going on for too long. Are we never going to get it right?...Learn to dance life like champions instead of always being just a bunch of beginners at it? ↗

— Athol Fugard

#bruised #collision #dance #life #life-lesson

How fragile we are, between the few good moments. ↗

— Jane Hirshfield

#people #life

You can't always be by the people you love you have to let them live their own life. ↗

— Brynlee

#and-life #people #life

I think it’s weird how vanilla people just jump into a bed and fuck and don’t ever relish the moment, don’t talk to each other about what works and what doesn’t. So many people just expect sex to happen, but really great sex takes work, like everything in life. You have to talk to your partner. ↗

— Lexi Blake

#expectations #great-sex #relish-the-moment #vanilla-people #life

When people keep telling you that you can’t do a thing, you kind of like to try it. ↗

— Margaret Chase Smith

#people #trying #humor

Tell me about your day, your routine, and what you did at the drugstore when the dumb little girl charged you five cents instead of five dollars. Did you speak up? Are you all so lily-white? The harder it gets to be safe and secure, to trust, to find love and understanding—the more you feel entitled, allowed, even encouraged, to cheat, to lie, to steal, and then later, even to kill. That you're just beginning to feel it now only means you have been lucky for too long. ↗

— A.M. Homes

#home

I would far rather have two or three lilies of the valley gathered for me by a person I like, than the most expensive bouquet that could be bought! ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#elizabeth-gaskell #flowers #friends #lily-of-the-valley #love