#thro

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. ↗

— Harper Lee

#anyway #before #begin #know #licked

They looked to each other for support, for strength, and at times, motivation, to remember why and for whom they lived. ↗

— Sage Steadman

#family #life #love #motivation #strength-through-adversity

My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale. ↗

— David Rockefeller

#along #carnegie #father #grandfather #large

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities. ↗

— Dr. Seuss

#brain #brain cells #cells #enables #end

She could not bear to look at him just now. If she did, she might well slap him again. Or cry. Or kiss him. And never know which was right and which was wrong and which was madness. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#game-of-thrones #kiss #love #song-of-fire-and-ice #storm-of-swords

He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons. ↗

— Sinclair Lewis

#misanthropy #love

Living in the past is a Jethro Tull album, not a smart poker strategy. ↗

— Richard Roeper

#in the past #jethro #living #past #poker

Hominids are all the Neanderthals, australopithecines, Homo habili, Homo erecti, etc., the upright-walking apes of which we are the only surviving species. ↗

— Joe Quirk

#apes #history #hominids #human #love

Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene, because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film. ↗

— Gary Ross

#ask #because #course #dialogue #dinner

Henny Penny," says Lupe. "Do you know this story?" I shake my head. Conversations with her can turn cryptic in the blink of an eye. "She thinks the sky is falling. Do you see my meaning?" "Not really." "Sometimes you have to let the world end, so you can build a new one. ↗

— Leanne Hall

#jethro #lupe #inspirational