#rin

The idea is to bring art to people who might never really interact with it. It's for all citizens, and it's about making the city more interesting and more visually significant. ↗

— Susan Davis

#art #bring #citizens #city #idea

Courage is endurance for one moment more... ↗

— Unknown Marine Second Lieutenant in Vietnam

#courage

Until that moment she had never thought she could do it. Never thought she would be brave enough or scared enough, or desperate enough to dare. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#bravery #courage #dare #daring #scared

They sell courage of a sort in the taverns. And another sort, though not for sale, a man can find in the confessional. Try the alehouses and the churches, Hugh. In either a man can be quiet and think. ↗

— Ellis Peters

#beer #confession #courage #drinking #quietness

Okay, so anagrams. That’s one. Got any other charming talents?” she asked, and now he felt confident. Finally, Colin turned to her, gathering in his gut the slim measure of courage available to him, and said, “Well, I’m a fair kisser. ↗

— John Green

#colin #courage #cute #katherine #kiss

If truth prevails, the contributions of a courageous physician and a brilliant engineer to the conquest of waterborne disease will still be remembered in another hundred years. ↗

— Michael J. McGuire

#drinking-water #michael-j-mcguire #public-health #the-chlorine-revolution #water

I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike. ↗

— James A. Garfield

#contests #deal #dislike #doctrines #events

Yea ! by your works are ye justified--toil unrelieved ; Manifold labours, co-ordinate each to the sending achieved ; Discipline, not of the feet but the soul, unremitting, unfeigned ; Tortures unholy by flame and by maiming, known, faced, and disdained ; Courage that suns Only foolhardiness ; even by these, are ye worthy of your guns. ↗

— Gilbert Frankau

#guns #soldiers #suffering #trenches #war

We must ensure that today's seniors' benefits are rock solid and find a solution that fixes Social Security for the next generation that is just entering the workforce. ↗

— John Thune

#ensure #entering #find #fixes #generation

When it comes to girls (and in Colin's case, it so often did), everyone has a type. Colin Singleton's type was not physical but linguistic: he liked Katherines. And not Katies or Kats or Kitties or Cathys or Rynns or Trinas or Kays or Kates or, god forbid, Catherines. K-A-T-H-E-R-I-N-E. He had dated 19 girls. All of them had been named Katherine. And all of them- every single solitary one- had dumped him. ↗

— John Green

#dating