#tin

I was always a big fan of waiting a year of two to groom an NFL quarterback; let him learn and mature. ↗

— Terrell Davis

#big #big fan #fan #groom #him

Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed? Can the writer isolate and vivify all in experience that most deeply engages our intellects and our heats? Can the writer renew our hope for literary forms? Why are we reading if not in hope that the writer will magnify and dramatize our days, will illuminate and inspire us with wisdom, courage, and the possibility of meaningfulness, and will press upon our minds the deepest mysteries, so we may feel again their majesty and power? ↗

— Annie Dillard

#reading #understanding #writing #writing-life #beauty

What the world really needs is courageous parenting from mothers and fathers who are not afraid to speak up and take a stand. ↗

— Larry R. Lawrence

#courage

We knew no one man had killed the prophet. Rather, the combined weight of racism and an absence of moral courage had crushed him. A constitution ignored, laws denied, these were the weapons. America pulled the trigger. ↗

— Marita Golden

#civil-rights-movement #martin-luther-king #mlk-martin-luther-king #courage

How come you girls want to be dating?.. First you fall in love, then you start dating, then you fall out of love, and then you split up again. Pierre Anthon - to the author and Ursula-Marie ↗

— Janne Teller

#dating

In Bruce’s opinion, the only fun in dating was the sport of it. The more it was like a tennis match, where he had to wear down his opponent through expertise and sheer force of will, the better he liked it. ↗

— Francine Pascal

#creepy #dating #sweet-valley #dating

Lesson learned: Don’t ever put a guy up on a pedestal. It’s too easy for him to tip over and fall off. ↗

— Kate Madison

#guys #memoir #pedestal #dating

So the difference between a criminal and a hero is the order in which their vile crimes are committed. And justice comes with a sell-by date. In that case, you’d better hurry. You wouldn't want your heroism to spoil. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#criminal #criminals #good-and-evil #heroism #hypocrisy

Lesson learned: If a guy tells you you’re his second choice, don’t make him your first. ↗

— Kate Madison

#dating #lesson-learned #memoir #dating

M. Zola sits down to give us a picture of the Second Empire. Who cares for the Second Empire now? It is out of date. Life goes faster than Realism, but Romanticism is always in front of Life. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#realism #romanticism #dating