#rue

The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is. ↗

— Phillips Brooks

#be humble #greatness #height #higher #humble

I've always had the perspective that roles come into my life when I need them most and sort of teach me lessons. The same can be true of films, films are released into society to aid in a lesson, inspire people, comfort people. ↗

— Bryce Dallas Howard

#always #be true #come #comfort #films

Never give up. And most importantly, be true to yourself. Write from your heart, in your own voice, and about what you believe in. ↗

— Louise Brown

#be true #believe #give #heart #importantly

When this boy was brought to Dr. Young, his name being William, the same as mine, my mother was ordered to change mine to something else. This, at the time, I thought to be one of the most cruel acts that could be committed upon my rights. ↗

— William Wells Brown

#being #boy #brought #change #committed

'Content is King,' and with more screens needing entertaining content now than at any time in history, that statement is truer than ever. ↗

— Mark Burnett

#content #entertaining #ever #history #king

But my point is these Civil War songs were gruesome. The hatred that's so bad in this country today, and for the past 10 or 15 years, bad as it is, is nothing compared to the kind of things people would write down and sing back in the Civil War. ↗

— T-Bone Burnett

#bad #civil #civil war #compared #country

There is something in age that ever, even in its own despite, must be venerable, must create respect and to have it ill treated, is to me worse, more cruel and wicked than anything on earth. ↗

— Frances Burney

#anything #create #cruel #despite #earth

Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true. ↗

— Elias Canetti

#discovers #every #his #lie #lies

We will that all men know we blame not all the lords, nor all those that are about the king's person, nor all gentlemen nor yeomen, nor all men of law, nor all bishops, nor all priests, but all such as may be found guilty by just and true inquiry and by the law. ↗

— Jack Cade

#bishops #blame #found #gentlemen #guilty

From heav'nly thoughts all true delight doth spring. ↗

— Thomas Campion

#doth #spring #thoughts #true