#sigh

In my mind, President Snow should be viewed in front of marble pillars hung with oversized flags. It's jarring to see him surrounded by the ordinary objects in the room. Like taking the lid off a pot and finding a fanged viper instead of stew. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#descriptive #insightful #beauty

Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that gives them a sixth sense of what the creature is going to do, so they can be ready to follow. ↗

— David Attenborough

#among #competent #creature #extraordinarily #follow

We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#bounds #cannot #guardian #hear #our

Hindsight, I think, is a useless tool. We, each of us, are at a place in our lives because of innumerable circumstances, and we, each of us, have a responsibility (if we do not like where we are) to move along life's road, to find a better path if this one does not suit, or to walk happily along this one if it is indeed our life's way. Changing even the bad things that have gone before would fundamentally change who we are, and whether or not that would be a good thing, I believe, it is impossible to predict. So I take my past experiences... and try to regret nothing. -Drizzt Do'urden ↗

— R.A. Salvatore

#hope #regret #change

Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs. ↗

— Ralph Bakshi

#animated #animated films #canned #emotions #films

The sight of nature fascinates, the family tie has a sweet enchantment and patriotism gives the religious spirit a fiery devotion to the powers that it reveres. ↗

— Bruno Bauer

#enchantment #family #fascinates #fiery #gives

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. ↗

— Miriam Beard

#certainly #change #deep #goes #ideas

Sometimes the best and worst times of your life can coincide. It is a talent of the soul to discover the joy in pain—-thinking of moments you long for, and knowing you’ll never have them again. The beautiful ghosts of our past haunt us and yet we still can’t decide if the pain they caused us out weighs the tender moments when they touched our soul. This is the irony of love. (MU Article, 2010) ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#bad-choices #decisions #family #friendship #hindsight

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary. ↗

— Warren G. Bennis

#better #everywhere #excellence #exemplary #found

Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows. ↗

— John Betjeman

#childhood #dark #grows #hour #measured