#springs

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs. ↗

— Joan Didion

#life #own #responsibility #self-respect #source

There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul. ↗

— Simone Weil

#baseness #because #degree #grandeur #laws

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#deep #empty #fed #i #learned

In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend. ↗

— Aeschylus

#end #every #friend #heart #in the end

Back 20 years ago, I was recording with Bruce Springsteen, and his producer called me and said I had to be in the studio the next day to finish the sessions, and I couldn't. I had to be in court, in California. All this took like 10 years out of my life. ↗

— Ronnie Spector

#back #bruce #bruce springsteen #california #called

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom. ↗

— Maurice Maeterlinck

#goodness #justice #reason #springs #wisdom

Virtue is the fount whence honour springs. ↗

— Christopher Marlowe

#honour #springs #virtue #whence

Whatever kind of seed is sown in a field, prepared in due season, a plant of that same kind, marked with the peculiar qualities of the seed, springs up in it. ↗

— Guru Nanak

#field #kind #marked #peculiar #plant

When Jesus then is with the multitudes, He is not in His house, for the multitudes are outside of the house, and it is an act which springs from His love of men to leave the house and to go away to those who are not able to come to Him. ↗

— Origen

#act #away #come #go #go away

My dad dragged me to a Bruce Springsteen concert as a kid. It was my first concert, but I fell asleep in the middle. My second concert was Weezer on the 'Pinkerton' tour, and 'Pinkerton' is the reason why I'm doing this. ↗

— Nate Ruess

#bruce #bruce springsteen #concert #dad #doing