#ric

You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky. ↗

— Tony Blair

#another #bit #creative #even #gets

Just pick a goal and stick to it―no big complicated secret. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#encouragement #goals #inspirational-quotes #richelle #richelle-goodrich

Capital, however capital may be defined, would practically cease to exist as an income producing fund, for the simple reason that if money, wherewith to buy capital, could be obtained for one-half of one per cent, capital itself could command no higher price. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

#capital #cease #cease to exist #cent #command

A witty vicar once said that a good marriage is like a pair of scissors with the couple inseparable joined, often moving in opposite directions, yet always destroying anyone who comes between them. The trick is for the blades to learn to work smoothly together, so as not to cut each other. ↗

— Mary Jo Putney

#marriage #marriage

You were kidnapped not?" "I was kidnapped." "You were forced not into marriage?" "I was forced into marriage." "You want not an annulment?" "I want not an annulment. ↗

— Deeanne Gist

#bride #brides #christian #christian-romance #connie

I whisper and you close your eyes. I speak and you turn away. If I scream, will you finally hear me beg you to hold me close to you, promise you'll never let go? ↗

— Ellen Hopkins

#inspirational-quotes #tricks #inspirational

…he is unlike the other customers. They sense it too, and look at him with hard eyes, eyes like little metal studs pinned into the white faces of young men [...] In the hush his entrance creates, the excessive courtesy the weary woman behind the counter shows him amplifies his strangeness. He orders coffee quietly and studies the rim of the cup to steady the sliding in his stomach. He had thought, he had read, that from shore to shore all America was the same. He wonders, Is it just these people I’m outside or is it all America? ↗

— John Updike

#angstrom #inspirational #isolation #loneliness #outside

I knew that I lived in a country in which the aspirations of black people were limited, marked-off. Yet I felt that I had to go somewhere and do something to redeem my being alive. ↗

— Richard Wright

#inspirational #inspirational

The pattern's laid out on the bed With dozens of colors of thread But you've got the needle I guess that's the point in the end ↗

— Amanda Palmer

#sad #song-lyrics #inspirational

For every woman, there is that one man who could get her to go anywhere he wanted her to go, do anything he wanted her to do—reach into her soul and turn her whole world on its ear—challenge everything she thought she believed. Highlighted by 24 Kindle users ↗

— Lenore Wolfe

#historical-romance #inspirational-quotes #lenore-wolfe #inspirational