#sca

I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that and it's pretty scary. Hope at least gives you the option of living. ↗

— Harry Nilsson

#believe #despair #desperation #eliminate #gives

It is my express wish that in awarding the prizes no consideration be given to the nationality of the candidates, but that the most worthy shall receive the prize, whether he be Scandinavian or not. ↗

— Alfred Nobel

#candidates #consideration #express #given #most

A tiny radish of passionate scarlet, tipped modestly in white. ↗

— Clementine Paddleford

#passionate #scarlet #tiny #tipped #white

I've never really been one of those girls who's scared of showing a bit of flesh. ↗

— Anna Paquin

#bit #flesh #i #never #really

Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again. ↗

— Rosa Parks

#been #bit #ever #heal #hurt

You know, sometimes I get moments of inspiration when I'm writing something and then the task seems so daunting that it just kind of scares me away. ↗

— Adam Pascal

#daunting #get #i #inspiration #just

I like a certain grandeur to a landscape, which both the Arctic and coastal BC have. I like it to be at all times clear that people aren't the dominant fact of a particular geography. ↗

— Kevin Patterson

#both #certain #clear #coastal #dominant

The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity. ↗

— Thomas Love Peacock

#resource #scarcity #waste

It's time to save the U.N. from its own scandals and mismanagement. It's time for U.N. Reform with teeth. ↗

— Mike Pence

#own #reform #save #scandals #teeth

Thirty, 40 years ago, more than that now, even, the cook was certainly at the bottom of the social scale. And any mother would've wanted their child to marry a doctor, a lawyer, an architect, not a cook. Now, we are genius, it's different. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#any #architect #bottom #certainly #child