#ring

Perfect heroines, like perfect heroes, aren't relatable, and if you can't put yourself in the protagonist's shoes, not only will they not inspire you, but the book will be pretty boring. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#boring #heroes #heroines #inspire #like

You know, I love wearing heels. I wish I could wear them all the time, but, you know, my sport doesn't really permit it. ↗

— Allyson Felix

#heels #i #i love #i wish #know

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#democracy #faith #nature #our #restoring

We will cut programs, we will try to rein in the size of the bureaucracy. We will bring federal pay scales that have become so exaggerated into line with market rates. ↗

— Eric Cantor

#bring #bureaucracy #cut #exaggerated #federal

But, as we've seen over the last several months, the people in this country are very dissatisfied with the direction that this administration is taking this country. And what we heard last night was absolutely the ignoring of that fact. It was: We're going to continue with this agenda. In fact, we're going to double down on healthcare. ↗

— Eric Cantor

#administration #agenda #continue #country #direction

We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable. ↗

— John Updike

#daily #extent #great #great extent #others

There's a lot of different things that we do during life that could personally harm us and I choose not to stop doing those things. ↗

— Laurel Clark

#could #different #different things #doing #during

We need to build websites with celebrity speakers who talk about the ideals of fairness, sharing, democratic cooperation, and altruism in public life. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#altruism #build #celebrity #cooperation #democratic

I wish there were more true conversion, and then there would not be so much backsliding, and, for fear of suffering, living at ease, when there are so few to contend for Christ and His cause. ↗

— Donald Cargill

#cause #christ #contend #conversion #ease

I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born. ↗

— Emily Carr

#big #born #dialect #different #half