#ria

Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly. ↗

— Cecil Beaton

#been #covered #fashion #high #history

The American economy has always been driven by the entrepreneurial nature of its citizens, and blocking access to affordable health care will only suffocate growth within the small business sector of our economy. ↗

— Paul Gillmor

#affordable #affordable health care #always #american #american economy

Nonetheless, we continue to be obsessed with finding or inventing a European nation which, as in the nation state, guarantees homogeneity and thus an appropriate form of democracy and centralized government. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#centralized #continue #democracy #european #finding

I just have this sort of entrepreneurial spirit and I work really hard at promoting myself. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#entrepreneurial spirit #hard #i #just #myself

Soft sun shone down on a misty cathedral at the opposite end of a football-field length courtyard. The cathedral had a long pointed tower with beautiful rose and ivory stained glass windows. Pink-petal flowers and deep green ivy climbed the stones from the ground to it’s roof. A large fountain stood in the middle of the courtyard with water falling from several lion’s heads. Between the misty air and rolling slope of the earth, the grounds reminded me of a long lost fairy tale. ↗

— Priya Ardis

#coming-of-age #e-books #ebooks #fairy-tales #heroic-fantasy

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#always #anvil #god #higher #shaping

I think it's outrageous if a historian has a 'leading thought' because it means they will select their material according to their thesis. ↗

— Antony Beevor

#because #historian #i #i think #leading

I don't like being a voyeur, looking into other people's marriages. ↗

— Paul Begala

#i #into #like #looking #marriages

Thus it seemed to Haeckel that such simple life could easily be produced from inanimate material. ↗