#thereof

Self-esteem is for sissies. Accept that you're a pimple and try to keep a lively sense of humor about it. That way lies grace - and maybe even glory. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#humor

This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#certain #characters #doubts #excepting #existence

I was really just the tea boy to begin with, or the equivalent thereof, but I quickly announced, innocently but very ambitiously, that I wanted to be, I was going to be, a foreign correspondent. ↗

— Christiane Amanpour

#begin #boy #correspondent #equivalent #foreign

The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#deceased #empire #ghost #grave #other

Why live in fear that he might find me disgusting someday, when I could make it happen right now? ↗

— Rachel Hartman

#fear #self-esteem-or-lack-thereof #beauty

For too long, and despite what people told me, I had fallen for what the culture said about beauty, youth, features, heights, weights, hair textures, upper arms. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#body-image #self-esteem-or-lack-thereof #beauty

It is very frightening to see a resurgence of the old mores, or lack thereof, regarding women's rights to their own bodies. ↗

— Gwen Moore

#frightening #lack #mores #old #own

The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#brotherhood #dictum #directive #earth #economic

I'm an action player. I like to be aggressive. I don't like to be on the run. I like to feel like I have the fates in my hands and that through my skill or lack thereof I control my fate. ↗

— Eugene Jarvis

#aggressive #control #fate #fates #feel

If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited. ↗

— Beatrice Webb

#anything #besides #bread #determined #eat