#tee

The President regards the Japanese as a brave people; but courage, though useful in time of war, is subordinate to knowledge of arts; hence, courage without such knowledge is not to be highly esteemed. ↗

— Townsend Harris

#brave #courage #esteemed #hence #highly

Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness. ↗

— Louise Hart

#happiness #health #important #legs #mental

I don't care what anybody says about Ringo. I cut my rock-n-roll teeth listening to him. ↗

— Don Henley

#anybody #care #cut #him #i

The man who bears my name, and who claims to be me, was born on July 15, 1865, the sixth in a family of seven. He was an ugly child, and remained ugly till his eighteenth year, when his looks gradually improved. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#born #child #claims #eighteenth #family

I was, without exaggeration, a delinquent teenager. ↗

— Clara Hughes

#exaggeration #i #teenager #without

I put on fifteen pounds of muscle, so that was a lot of eating chicken and a high protein, low-carb diet. Also a lot of heavy lifting and a very different kind of training with an ex-navy SEAL guy who wanted to kill me every time I got with him. In a good way. ↗

— Josh Hutcherson

#chicken #diet #different #different kind #eating

Would you believe I devise my entire show based upon a single one of these jewels? It's true I choose a color from my collection (...) and with it I can imagine a whole world. ↗

— Dita Von Teese

#burlesque #dita-von-teese #jewels #p- #art

It seemed weird calling a teenager 'sir' but I'd learned to be careful with immortals. They tended to get offended easily. Then, they blew stuff up. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#humor #immortals #teenager #humor

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection ↗

— Gautama Buddha

#life #love #self-acceptance #self-esteem #wisdom

A committee is an animal with four back legs. ↗

— John le Carre

#back #committee #four #legs