#so

In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike. ↗

— Walter Pater

#alike #even #eye #failure #form

No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government. ↗

— Isabel Paterson

#give #government #law #persons #power

Some models are naturally very thin, but if they aren't naturally like that, then what these girls do to their health to fit in... To be a size zero or a two when you're tall is incredible to me. ↗

— Tatjana Patitz

#health #incredible #like #me #models

I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution. ↗

— Alan Paton

#contribution #creative #different #each #envision

If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing. ↗

— Alan Paton

#central #concern #issues #novel #publishing

I've learned... . That being kind is more important than being right. ↗

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#age

It would be hypocritical of me to use being female in some ways, and diss being female in other ways. It's part of the programme. ↗

— Danica Patrick

#female #hypocritical #me #other #part

There are still a lot of cases in the world where you order something and then you see 'Delivery will be in 8-12 weeks.' This is because of the faxes and forms that still exist. ↗

— John Patrick

#cases #delivery #exist #faxes #forms

If I have any worth, it is to live my life for God so as to teach these peoples; even though some of them still look down on me. ↗

— Saint Patrick

#down #even #god #i #life

I can't see that Danish episode as an adventure, or a crisis survived, or a serious quest for anything definable. It was just another happening like today's luncheon, something I got into and got out of. And it reminds me too much of how little life changes: how, without dramatic events or high resolves, without tragedy, without even pathos, a reasonably endowed, reasonably well-intentioned man can walk through the world's great kitchen from end to end and arrive at the back door hungry. ↗

— Wallace Stegner

#life-experience #life-lessons #living #age