#thou

Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#essential #i #important #me #only

The soul is dyed with the color of its leisure thoughts. ↗

— Dean Inge

#dyed #leisure #soul #thoughts

Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#gives #may #none #preserving #sea

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather. ↗

— Washington Irving

#equable #gifts #good nature #heaven #inexhaustible

When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel. ↗

— Harold Kushner

#body #carry #feel #feeling #get

My idol was Marilyn Monroe, who was a size 16, I think, and curvy in all the right places. I will never be stick thin. I remember a shoot where I had to get into these tiny hot pants, and I thought, 'God, I wish I hadn't eaten.' ↗

— Katherine Jenkins

#eaten #get #god #had #hadn

My daughter is, of course, perfect. Everyone's child is, but mine really is perfect. But I could not have raised her without my parents. From the time she was seven months until now, I have been a single parent. ↗

— Valerie Jarrett

#child #could #course #daughter #everyone

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#cases #equal #equal rights #law #majority

I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#cultural #i #inner #instinctive #linked

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