#sole

As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#days #deeper #inwardly #less #life

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots. ↗

— Thurgood Marshall

#because #bent #boots #bootstraps #down

The Nobel Prize, so long regarded in our science as the highest reward a man's work can earn, must bring to its recipient a most solemn sense of his debt to his fellow scientists and those of the past. ↗

— Edward M. Purcell

#debt #earn #fellow #highest #highest reward

Acting is what I do. It's not what I solely define myself as. ↗

— Meg Ryan

#define #i #i do #myself #solely

Even if they've figured themselves gays at the age of five or fifty, there really isn't much of a difference in how society begins to accept them once they're out. ↗

— Teresa "Jew" Lariosa

#age

If you want to understand Jesus, you have to study the whole Bible. Christian duty is not defined solely by the words in red. ↗

— Randall Terry

#christian #defined #duty #jesus #red

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics. ↗

— Jane Addams

#ethics #expression #indeed #medium #sole

Mistaking insolence for freedom has always been the hallmark of the slave. ↗

— Wilhelm Reich

#insolence #slavery #freedom

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is. ↗