#rises

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. ↗

— Henry Ford

#discoveries #find #great #greatest #his

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#also #defects #demand #enterprises #excel

The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts. ↗

— Derek Walcott

#apart #estates #few #history #landscapes

They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises. ↗

— Mary Wesley

#enchanting #full #great #may #out

My life is so full of surprises, nothing surprises me any more. ↗

— Kim Wilde

#full #life #me #more #my life

The only realistic view is that a human life arises gradually, which is not much help in making personal decisions or devising public policy. ↗

— George C. Williams

#decisions #devising #gradually #help #human

No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#buildings #built #could #ever #express

Hence, wherever we meet with vital phenomena that present the two aspects, physical and psychical there naturally arises a question as to the relations in which these aspects stand to each other. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

#aspects #each #hence #meet #naturally

I am also well aware that literature only has a minimal influence on political disputes or economic crises in the world, but its significance to human beings is ancient. ↗

— Mo Yan

#am #ancient #aware #beings #crises

I like the serendipitous surprises of reality. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#like #reality #surprises