#rings

There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul. ↗

— Simone Weil

#baseness #because #degree #grandeur #laws

My real fantasy if I was to drop out would be to live in a mobile home and be a hippie and drive around festivals and have millions of children - children with dreadlocks and nose rings - and play the flute. ↗

— Rachel Weisz

#children #drive #drop #fantasy #festivals

Maybe it has something to do with turning 30. I don't feel as shy or nervous or self-conscious. I have more confidence that I can handle what life brings me. I don't feel scared to have an idea and express it. ↗

— Michelle Williams

#confidence #express #feel #handle #i

I do seem to like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass. ↗

— David Byrne

#body #business #combine #dramatic #drums

My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#all-time #answer #ask #book #different

Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings. ↗

— Donald Cargill

#believing #christ #earthly #enjoyments #farewell

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward. ↗

— Ovid

#deed #good #good deed #men #reward

Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace. ↗

— Alexis Carrel

#ineffable #inner #inner strength #light #man

Hope springs eternal, even in politics. ↗

— Gwen Ifill

#even #hope #politics #springs

Maybe people have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love. ↗