#peri

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it. ↗

— William Shenstone

#apprehension #envy #fear #our #superiority

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical. ↗

— William Shenstone

#felt #frequently #lines #most #musical

The rocket had worked perfectly, and all I had to do was survive the reentry forces. You do it all, in a flight like that, in a rather short period of time, just 16 minutes as a matter of fact. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#flight #forces #had #i #just

Then there was the challenge to keep doing better and better, to fly the best test flight that anybody had ever flown. That led to my being recognized as one of the more experienced test pilots, and that led to the astronaut business. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#astronaut #being #best #better #business

I actually enjoy wearing the corsets required in some period films. ↗

— Dinah Sheridan

#corsets #enjoy #films #i #period

We are in this period now where we all are trying to be in shape physically and deny ourselves any pleasure. ↗

— Carly Simon

#deny #now #ourselves #period #physically

I think I have a superior brain and an inferior stature, if you really want to get brutal about it. ↗

— Paul Simon

#brain #brutal #get #i #i think

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

#friends #makes #prosperity #them #tries

I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever. ↗

— Ed Smith

#experienced #grandparents #growing #growing up #had

I rode on a float in one of the parades in Mississippi. It's an experience. ↗

— Elliott Smith

#float #i #mississippi #parades #rode