#sever

Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#different #even #every #might #novelist

I have composed several pieces which are performed outdoors, not only in the auditoria. ↗

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

#i #only #outdoors #performed #pieces

I have several dogs and several cats who aren't really mine. In fact, they think that I am theirs. I'd like to have some goats and chickens, but I travel around too much. ↗

— Eric Stoltz

#around #cats #chickens #dogs #fact

In point of fact all Americans are automatically turned down by China these days because of the escalation of Johnson's war in Vietnam, which several times has intruded into China. ↗

— Anna Louise Strong

#automatically #because #china #days #down

One of the characteristics I cherish in my friends is their childlike gullibility, and several excited minutes were spent trying to actually find this book. ↗

— Phil Foglio

#book #characteristics #cherish #childlike #excited

The ties that bind us to life are tougher than you imagine, or than any one can who has not felt how roughly they may be pulled without breaking. ↗

— Anne Brontë

#perseverance #imagination

Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work, and not a soft job. ↗

— Hanif Kureishi

#commitment #love #perseverance #love

The human heart is like india-rubber; a little swells it, but a great deal will not burst it. If "little more than nothing will disturb it, little less than all things will suffice" to break it. As in the outer members of our frame, there is a vital power inherent in itself that strengthens it against external violence. Every blow that shakes it will serve to harden it against a future stroke; as constant labour thickens the skin of the hand, and strengthens its muscles instead of wasting them away: so that a day of arduous toil, that might excoriate a lady's palm, would make no sensible impression on that of a hardy ploughman. ↗

— Anne Brontë

#heart #perseverance #india

We are more severe judges of our own acts... We judge our thoughts, our intents, our secret curses, our secret hates, not only our acts. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#acts #judgement #life #reflection #self

I may not be where I want to be, but if I stop now, I'll NEVER get where I'm going! ↗

— Laura Lynch

#motivational #perseverance #inspirational