#thing

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#believer #doubt #makes #mankind #something

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#achieving #earth #goal #help #his

The point is that when I see a sunset or a waterfall or something, for a split second it's so great, because for a little bit I'm out of my brain, and it's got nothing to do with me. I'm not trying to figure it out, you know what I mean? And I wonder if I can somehow find a way to maintain that mind stillness. ↗

— Chris Evans

#bit #brain #figure #find #got

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#government #ground #liberty #natural #progress

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#conquest #deeply #every #mind #more

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#america #continue #european #interferences #objects

There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices. ↗

— Francis Jeffrey

#his #long #man #may #nothing

There is a lovable quality about the actual tools. One feels so kindly to the thing that enables the hand to obey the brain. Moreover, one feels a good deal of respect for it; without it the brain and the hand would be helpless. ↗

— Gertrude Jekyll

#actual #brain #deal #enables #feels

What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#allowed #average #bourgeois #end #everything

There is a comfort zone of knowing where things are going and having characters in place, but the action gets more and more dramatic and is very challenging to describe. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

#challenging #characters #comfort #comfort zone #describe