#sent

That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a plot that sustain interest from the first sentence to the last. But that is not what I do at all. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#characters #define #end #first #i

All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena. ↗

— Dean Inge

#behind #consists #essentially #faith #natural

Tolerance is carved into the rostrum of the U.S. House of Representatives and intolerance should not be carved into the U.S. Constitution. ↗

— Jay Inslee

#constitution #house #into #intolerance #representatives

The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#direction #ego #environment #evolution #fabric

But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded as a series of mutually exclusive moments, is nothing and does nothing. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#does #exclusive #finite #island #itself

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. ↗

— Helen Keller

#creep #feels #impulse #never #soar

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#feel #inferior #make #without #you

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#first-sentence #family

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present. ↗

— Bil Keane

#inspirational #misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt #past #present #widely-misattributed

I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won't. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#romance #romantic #sentimentality #love