#ren

We all have a fear of the unknown what one does with that fear will make all the difference in the world. ↗

— Lillian Russell

#does #fear #make #unknown #will

My parents came to visit every two months and brought plenty of books. ↗

— Mathias Rust

#brought #came #every #months #parents

From imperial, economic and ideological causes, many cultures are the inheritors, and hence the prisoners, of attitudes of scorn and disdain for other faiths – outlooks which are not ennobling to anyone. ↗

— Idries Shah

#god #islam #jesus #mohammed #muslims

Worldwide is an overused word. But it's true that being known has given me new ideas and a chance to get to know new people who think in different ways. I want to hear myself referred to as Elie Saab, without labels or titles. ↗

— Elie Saab

#chance #different #different ways #get #given

It's not so unusual to run out of someone else's currency. ↗

— Jeffrey Sachs

#else #out #run #someone #unusual

Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it. ↗

— Vita Sackville-West

#daily #daily experience #difference #experience #much

After four or five different wars, I grew weary of that work, partly because in an open war, open to coverage, as Vietnam was, it's not that difficult, really. ↗

— Morley Safer

#because #coverage #different #difficult #five

Mr Cobb would acquaint him, that when he was his age, his father thought no more of giving him a parental kick, or a box on the ears, or a cuff on the head, or some little admonition of that sort, than he did of any other ordinary duty of life; and he would further remark, with looks of great significance, that but for this judicious bringing up, he might have never been the man he was at that present speaking; which was probable enough, as he was, beyond all question, the dullest dog of the party. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#parenting #upbringing #age

As you get older, you're doing different parts, but the young people, like yourself, they keep you excited, because they'll see Waterfront, and they'll want to talk about it. ↗

— Eva Marie Saint

#because #different #different parts #doing #excited

But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began to write in English, a man of genius, to interpret and improve on him, was not found for a long time. ↗

— George Saintsbury

#english #englishmen #exceptions #found #french