#spring

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#dangerous thing #deep #drink #learning #little

I was away from the front lines for a while this spring, living with other troops, and considerable fighting took place while I was gone. When I got ready to return to my old friends at the front I wondered if I would sense any change in them. ↗

— Ernie Pyle

#away #change #considerable #fighting #friends

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#earth #knows #like #poems #returned

From the streets of Cairo and the Arab Spring, to Occupy Wall Street, from the busy political calendar to the aftermath of the tsunami in Japan, social media was not only sharing the news but driving it. ↗

— Dan Rather

#arab #busy #calendar #driving #japan

It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization. ↗

— Agnes Repplier

#civilization #decencies #luxuries #said #spring

The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck. ↗

— Tony Robbins

#generates #luck #meeting #offspring #opportunity

Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through. ↗

— Jim Rohn

#least #leave #people #plant #season

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction. ↗

— James Rollins

#both #fiction #i #inspiration #inspired

The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify. ↗

— Elihu Root

#aim #argument #causes #conduct #creating

If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom. ↗

— Ernestine L. Rose

#allow #america #blast #fair #flowers