#ship

Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that first I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#love #relationships #restraint #rules #love

I love you," he said, his voice catching. "When I thought you were going to die, I wanted to die. ↗

— Eloisa James

#love #relationships #beauty

The partnership over the 28 years we had the company afforded him the opportunity to experiment and live his life as an artist and a label honcho and do what he wanted to do. It afforded me the same opportunity. ↗

— Jerry Moss

#artist #company #experiment #had #him

Such highly qualitative leadership is demanded especially in the realm of the fostering of right international relations. Here the demand is simply irresistible. ↗

— John Raleigh Mott

#demanded #especially #fostering #here #highly

It's easier to write from my own life, and it's also more fun. I always write about relationships, for instance, whether they're romantic relationships, friendships, encounters... there's always a lesson to be learned from them. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#also #always #easier #encounters #friendships

Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred. ↗

— Yousef Munayyer

#fear #great #hatred #humility #just

There was a time when the contractual relationship between the employer and the employee was supposed to be none of the public's business. That time has passed. ↗

— Frank Murphy

#business #contractual #employee #employer #none

I say let's go back to a truer use of the word 'freedom.' Let's start with President Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. I would add the freedom to bargain collectively. Those freedoms are under attack today. ↗

— Richard Trumka

#attack #back #bargain #collectively #expression

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#running

I go to Prague every year if I can, value my relationships there like gold, and feel myself in a sense Czech, with all their hopes and needs. They are a people I not only love, but admire. ↗

— Ellis Peters

#czech #every #feel #go #gold