#rings

Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are. ↗

— Princess Diana

#call #come #come running #destiny #distress

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#had #heart #human #human heart #strings

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#children #existence #felt #finely #injustice

I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#accountable #exercise #exist #for the people #i

The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#bearings #been #chain #deduce #events

Then as he had kept watch Sam had noticed that at times a light seemed to be shining faintly within; but now the light was even clearer and stronger. Frodo's face was peaceful, the marks of fear and care had left it; but it looked old, old and beautiful, as if the chiseling of the shaping years was now revealed in many fine lines that had before been hidden, though the identity of the face was not changed. Not that Sam Gamgee put it that way to himself. He shook his head, as if finding words useless, and murmured: "I love him. He's like that, and sometimes it shines through, somehow. But I love him, whether or no. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#lord-of-the-rings #middle-earth #sam-gamgee #tolkien #beauty

The freedom to connect to the world anywhere at anytime brings with it the threat of unscrupulous predators and criminals who mask their activities with the anonymity the Internet provides to its users. ↗

— Mike Fitzpatrick

#anonymity #anytime #anywhere #brings #connect

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. ↗

— G. M. Trevelyan

#readiness #responsibility #springs #thought

In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers. ↗

— Garry Trudeau

#caused #divorce #homelessness #lawyers #palm

Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy. ↗

— Virgil

#day #joy #may #perhaps #remember