#ski

It seems better to me for a child to have these skills and never use them, than not have them and one day need them," she said. ↗

— Kristin Cashore

#skill #child

Like many highly educated people, I didn't have much in the way of actual skills. ↗

— J. Maarten Troost

#skills #education

We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#rose

it's all a popularity contest, which unfortunately often has more to do with good looks rather than actual talent. ↗

— Andrew James Pritchard

#fame-and-fortune #life-skills #popularity #talent #art

I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#injustice #injustice

I love you crookedly because my heart's been unhinged from birth. The doctors gave me strict instructions not to fall in love: my fragile clockwork heart would never survive. But when you gave me a dose of love so powerful - far beyond my wildest dreams - that I felt able to confront anything for you, I decided to put my life in your hands. ↗

— Mathias Malzieu

#broken-hearted-quotes #one-sidedness #risking-it-all #dreams

For years, I declined to fill in the form for my Senate press credential that asked me to state my 'race,' unless I was permitted to put 'human.' The form had to be completed under penalty of perjury, so I could not in conscience put 'white,' which is not even a color let alone a 'race,' and I sternly declined to put 'Caucasian,' which is an exploded term from a discredited ethnology. Surely the essential and unarguable core of King's campaign was the insistence that pigmentation was a false measure: a false measure of mankind (yes, mankind) and an inheritance from a time of great ignorance and stupidity and cruelty, when one drop of blood could make you 'black. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#civil-rights-movement #ethnology #identity-politics #martin-luther-king-jr #perjury

The most complicated skill is to be simple. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #literature #literature-quotes #poetry #poetry-quotes

For desert, maybe we can split a couple of crumbs. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#humor #skinny #food

The trick to saying the word cock, is to do it like you have one in your mouth. ↗

— Geoffrey Knight

#tasty-treats #words-of-wisdom #life