#rage

I will never demean myself to speak about my courage," said Julien, coldly, "it would be mean to do so. Let the world judge by the facts. ↗

— Stendhal

#courage

God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I believe, in my heart, we were intended to prize life and enjoy it, so long as we retain it. Existence never was originally meant to be that useless, blank, pale, slow-trailing thing it often becomes to many, and is becoming to me, among the rest. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#courage

I want to go on living even after my death! And therefore I am grateful to God for this gift, this possibility of developing myself and of writing, of expressing all that is in me. I can shake off everything if I write; my sorrows disappear; my courage is reborn. But, and that is the great question, will I ever be able to write anything great, will I ever become a journalist or a writer? ↗

— Anne Frank

#courage

I've noticed that about your people, Doctor. You find it easier to understand the death of one than the death of a million. You speak about the objective hardness of the Vulcan heart, yet how little room there seems to be in yours. ↗

— Leonard Nimoy

#compassion #death #empathy #mourning #objectivity

I know why I am here and my only real focused goal is to live each day to the fullest and to try and honor God and be an encouragement to others. What the future holds is firmly in God's hands, and I am very happy about that! ↗

— Ken Hensley

#am #day #each #encouragement #firmly

The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend. ↗

— Katharine Hepburn

#ambition #american #average #boyfriend #courted

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#angry #denial #him #his #how

There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob. ↗

— Herodotus

#given #mob #more #nothing #outrage

The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#bending #broadcast #coverage #every #first

Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#because #better #better place #boiling #comes