#ship

Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#attentions #consists #courtship #nor #number

This is the beauty of the Qur'an: it asks you to reflect and reason, and not to worship the sun or moon but the One who has created everything. The Qur'an asks man to reflect upon the sun and moon and God's creation in general. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#beauty #created #creation #everything #general

Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success. ↗

— Sting

#choice #choose #degree #friendship #given

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them. ↗

— W. Clement Stone

#be careful #become #careful #choose #environment

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto. ↗

— W. Clement Stone

#carefully #dreams #goals #gusto #how

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#authorities #autocracy #dictatorship #envied #freedom

It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them. ↗

— Anthony Storr

#compulsively #longer #need #only #real

Friendships are discovered rather than made. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#friendships #made #rather #than

A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#accomplishes #admired #celebrated #class #firm

I also have intense relationships with furniture... probably because we practically had none when I was growing up. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#because #furniture #growing #growing up #had