#real

Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England has a real duty there. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#attempt #been #civilization #conquest #duty

We must also recognize the new realities of modern warfare and the modern landscape of a battlefield. ↗

— Susan Davis

#battlefield #landscape #modern #modern warfare #must

He hadn't meant to get so angry at Morgan. He didn't often get angry at other people. There was no sense in it. The person you were angry at was rarely ever repentant. Now, getting angry with yourself had some merit. It showed you had sense enough to chastise the one person who had any hope of benefiting from it. And he was plenty angry with himself. For many things. ↗

— Sarah Addison Allen

#improvement #self-realization #anger

Anger is an agro-chemical that makes self-destruction to grow faster. Like a stone thrown upward, all angry people eventually fall down into the dirty ditch of sorrowful self-harm and a pathetic loss of real-self. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#anger #fall #fertilizer #grow #real-self

Trinity Park lies directly across from the library, Trinity Church rising like a midieval thought amidst the glass and steel towers. ↗

— Nick Flynn

#boston #description #ethereal #architecture

life is a video game, only difference is that you don't always get three chances! ↗

— Siddhartha Choudhary

#life #reality #attitude

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#make #reality #unbearable #without #world

I like that about art, that what you see is sometimes more about who you are than what’s on the wall. I look at this painting and think about how everyone has some secret inside, something sleeping like that yellow bird. ↗

— Cath Crowley

#read-again #really-enjoi-it #art

It was queer how sometimes a child's innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#game-of-thrones #reality #truth #courage

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#explain #how #just #learn #never