#sweet

The talk of winning our share is not the easy one of disengagement and flight, but the hard one of work, of short as well as long jumps, of disappointments, and of sweet success. ↗

— Roy Wilkins

#disengagement #easy #flight #hard #jumps

Success is the sweetest revenge. ↗

— Vanessa Williams

#success #success is #sweetest

People in distress behave in a stressful way. They aren't all sweetness and light. They don't behave well when they are unhappy. That's just what I've observed. ↗

— Penelope Wilton

#distress #i #just #light #observed

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#friendship #never #opportunity #responsibility #sweet

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#dew #finds #heart #laughter #little

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#beloved #caused #death #more #perish

My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jesus wasn't a Christian, she would stomp you to death. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#death #ever #her #jesus #lady

And I don't believe that children are innocent. In fact, no one seriously believes that. Just go to a playground and watch the kids playing in the sandbox! The romantic notion of the sweet child is simply the parents projecting their own wishes. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#believes #child #children #fact #go

It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet. ↗

— Augustus Hare

#bright #flowers #i #i believe #moral

I'd said to my sweetheart a couple of days before that the SAG and Spirit Award nomination was amazing and I had no attachment to the Academy Award. I knew I was an underdog so I just decided to sleep through the announcement. ↗

— John Hawkes

#academy award #amazing #announcement #attachment #award