#rue

True strength is delicate. ↗

— Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

#strength #true #true strength

Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue. ↗

— John Henry Newman

#brings #cultivate #gain #highest #never

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#beautiful #complete #context #faith #good

Yes, it's true, I've been called the Laurence Olivier of spoofs. I guess that would make Laurence Olivier the Leslie Nielsen of Shakespeare. ↗

— Leslie Nielsen

#called #guess #i #laurence #laurence olivier

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#dangerous #man #most #play #plaything

Someone asked me years ago if it were true that I disliked Jews, and I replied that it was certainly true, not at all because they are Jews but because they are folks, and I don't like folks. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#asked #because #certainly #disliked #folks

It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy. ↗

— Alexander Theroux

#dummy #eat #eating #his #like

Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk. ↗

— Peggy Noonan

#compliment #equality #friends #how #implies

Just like I find men who talk sports who don't really know sports annoying, I think men might find women who don't really have a true passion and knowledge of sports maybe not so attractive. ↗

— Gabrielle Union

#attractive #find #i #i think #just

I think this is true for all artists. My senses are very important to me. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#i #i think #important #me #senses