#though

Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#come #domination #impose #instrument #love

The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#begun #crossing #even #hadn #mere

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal. ↗

— Richard Adams

#destruction #dies #his #ideas #immortal

It is the part of a fool to say, I should not have thought. ↗

— Scipio Africanus

#i #part #say #should #thought

You know my dad pushed me to believe that I was going to be the best. I just never thought of life without tennis, even looking forward. ↗

— Andre Agassi

#best #dad #even #forward #going

The man forget not, though in rags he lies, and know the mortal through a crown's disguise. ↗

— Mark Akenside

#disguise #forget #know #lies #man

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. ↗

— Aristotle

#first #friends #honor #love #our

He’d only ever seen a gun once, a smaller one on the hip of that old deputy, a gun he’d always figured was more for show. He stuffed a fistful of deadly rounds in his pocket, thinking how each one could end an individual life, and understanding why such things were forbidden. Killing a man should be harder than waving a length of pipe in their direction. It should take long enough for one’s conscience to get in the way. ↗

— Hugh Howey

#inspirational #killing #thought-provoking #inspirational

Stripe felt frozen. To be so high and not high at all! It only looked good from the bottom. ↗

— Trina Paulus

#thought-provoking #inspirational

We can fly! “We can become butterflies! “There’s nothing at the top and it doesn’t matter!” As he heard his own message he realized how he had misread the instinct to get high. To get to the “top” he must fly, not climb. ↗

— Trina Paulus

#thought-provoking #inspirational