#red

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying. ↗

— Norman Douglas

#dying #living #sublimity #things #those

I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#ark #colored #his #hopes #i

I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age. ↗

— Rita Dove

#age #apprehensive #every #every time #feared

When you're 23, 24 years old and somebody's given you a credit card and jets and limos and you don't have to pay the bill when it comes in - that's a pretty nice deal. ↗

— Jerry Doyle

#card #comes #credit #credit card #deal

Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits. ↗

— Elizabeth Drew

#democracy #like #limits #relationship #rests

I can't predict whether I'll leave here freely or in handcuffs. ↗

— Ilya Yashin

#here #i #leave #predict #whether

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course. ↗

— Peter Drucker

#becomes #course #make #obsolete #required

I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records. ↗

— Alvin Lee

#benny #clarinet #dad #goodman #i

Humility is considered an un-masculine quality. ↗

— David Duchovny

#humility #quality

I still have a feeling that I haven't written the best that I can write. I think all poets must feel this: that there is constantly something new to be discovered in the language. It's like a thrilling encounter, and you can find things. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#constantly #discovered #encounter #feel #feeling