#sk

In such a case secrecy must be absolute to be effective, and although mere vague curiosity induced many persons of my intimate acquaintance to ask to be allowed to just go in and have a peep, I never admitted anyone. ↗

— Henry Bessemer

#acquaintance #admitted #allowed #although #anyone

Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#another #being #come #country #entered

A mask of gold hides all deformities. ↗

— Thomas Dekker

#gold #hides #mask

As long as I own this football team and long after I'm gone, they will always be the Washington Redskins. ↗

— Jack K. Cooke

#always #football #football team #gone #i

Life's true face is the skull. ↗

— Nikos Kazantzakis

#life #skull #true #life

A thing is only as great as the amount a person is willing to risk for it. If you are not willing to risk anything, then the thing mustn't be so great at all. ↗

— Madeline Claire Franklin

#philosophy #risks #life

When we are true to ourselves, and follow these impulses that sweat from our compressed and broken souls we may just find the beauty, and the oh-so amazing way life can sneak up and smash us in the face! ↗

— Danielle Rohr

#danielle #denali #project #rohr #waitress

when we look up, it widens our horizons. we see what a little speck we are in the universe, so insignificant, and we all take ourselves so seriously, but in the sky, there are no boundaries. No differences of caste or religion or race. ↗

— Julia Gregson

#horizon #meditation #religion #sky #thinking

Light is the task where many share the toil. ↗

— Homer

#many #share #task #toil #where

I was nine-years-old when I first put on skates. ↗

— Scott Hamilton

#i #put #skates