#ties

People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#eccentricities #life

In Shahid's view, the best way through difficult times, as through life in general, was just to go along with things. It was a rare problem that couldn't be solved by being ignored. ↗

— John Lanchester

#difficulties #going-along #ignoring-things #life #problems

Liberation was in the very scale of the city: a goldfish bowl one could never grow to fit. ↗

— Sheridan Hay

#city-life #urban-life #life

May each of us remember this truth; 'one cannot forget mother and remember God. One cannot remember mother and forget God.' Why? Because these two sacred persons, God and mother, partners in creation, in love, in sacrifice, in service, are as one. ↗

— Thomas S. Monson

#god #mother #sacred-callings #sacred-responsibilities #love

Yet once you've come to be part of this particular patch, you'll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real. ↗

— Nelson Algren

#cities #love #lovely #love

I believe that States should be credited for their non-Federal investment in revenue-generating transportation facilities to address their regional transportation needs. ↗

— Michael Burgess

#believe #credited #facilities #i #i believe

It is a far far better thing that I do, than I have ever done. It is a far far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known." protagonist, facing the guillotine, sacrificing himself for the sake of his love ↗

— Charles Dickens

#cities #dickens #rest #revolution #tale

Forget the fountain of youth, pal of mine. You can live to be a thousand, and it won't matter. Mediocrities like you deserve immortality. ↗

— Gary Shteyngart

#immortality #mediocrities #love

But I want to start a family one day, and be involved in more charities, helping children. ↗

— Lily Aldridge

#children #day #family #helping #i

Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#clichés #double-standards #empowerment #feminism #gender