#sm

I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society. ↗

— Virginia Gildersleeve

#bite #chance #college #democratic #democratic society

Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning. ↗

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#amount #any #audiences #better #epigram

Then, as now, it was just uncomfortable. Now, as then, it was a lifted chin and a crooked smile that said more than they would ever allow themselves to communicate. ↗

— Sandi Layne

#second-chances #usmc #communication

With my time in the limelight, I regret that I didn't use it more to push vegetarianism. I support vegetarian options in the school lunch program. ↗

— Bernhard Goetz

#limelight #lunch #more #my time #options

Better by far to be good and courageous and bold and to make difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit around you ↗

— David Nicholls

#personal-responsibility #change

I think vegetarianism is a crucial ethical choice for an individual and a society. ↗

— Bernhard Goetz

#crucial #ethical #i #i think #individual

There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#ever #fire #great #hearts #himself

Im an animal love, but I don't have the smarts to be a vet, or the heart to have been a vet cause I cry over any wounded animal. ↗

— Julie Gold

#any #been #cause #cry #heart

Cities may now bulldoze private citizens' homes, farms and small businesses to make way for shopping malls or other developments. ↗

— Bob Goodlatte

#businesses #cities #citizens #developments #farms

Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance. ↗

— Benny Goodman

#failing #life #lose #losing #music