#rove

She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet. ↗

— Jane Austen

#self-awareness #self-improvement #wise

What about thinking of happiness as a right instead than as a gift? ↗

— Rossana Condoleo

#giving-advice #happiness #happy #inspiration #inspirational

Dancing?' Annabeth asked. Thalia nodded. She cocked her ear to the music and made a face. 'Ugh. Who chose Jesse McCartney?' Grover looked hurt. 'I did. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#humor #jesse-mccartney #thalia-grace #humor

A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#proverb #proverbs #humor

What we share as introverts is the love of ideas and the desire to explore them with minimal interruption. We want and need input, but we’d rather get it through reading, research, and rich conversation than through unfiltered talk. ↗

— Laurie Helgoe

#life

The documents have not been conclusively proven false. Neither have they been proven authentic. ↗

— Bill Burkett

#been #conclusively #documents #false #neither

I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money. ↗

— Barbara Bush

#cost #decided #government #i #lot

I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we've had in a couple of hundred years. ↗

— Dan Quayle

#couple #effective #george #george bush #going

War is not the quintessential emergency in which man has to prove himself, as my generation learned at its school desks in the days of the Kaiser; rather, peace is the emergency in which we all have to prove ourselves. ↗

— Gustav Heinemann

#desks #emergency #generation #himself #learned

The records fell easily at first. Dozens of seconds peeled away with every running of a course, and I could hardly wait for the next chance to improve. ↗

— Joe Henderson

#chance #could #course #dozens #easily