#tory

Always do what you're afraid to do"-Robert F. Kennedy ↗

— Evan Thomas

#history #life

I can only bow to the will of the heaven, but not to the will of these men. ↗

— Eiji Yoshikawa

#taira-no-kiyomori #the-heike-story #men

They say God appeared in history and used it for his purposes, but if that was so he had no pity for men. ↗

— Bernard Malamud

#history #mankind #men #pity #men

I want my life to be the greatest story. My very existence will be the greatest poem. Watch me burn. Love always, Charlotte ↗

— Charlotte Eriksson

#dreams #existence #goals #growing-up #inspiration

Today’s youngsters will unfortunately never know the thrills we experienced dubbing movies in the era of Rashomon. ↗

— Teruyo Nogami

#history #movies #rashomon #movies

I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our way backward to progressively more remote and uncertain epochs. ↗

— Hannes Alfven

#backward #begin #believed #epochs #i

The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes. ↗

— Teresa of Ávila

#st-therese #story-of-a-soul #faith

As Indiana's governor, I balanced eight budgets, never raised taxes, and left the largest surplus in state history. It wasn't always easy. Cuts had to be made and some initiatives deferred. Occasionally I had to say 'no.' ↗

— Evan Bayh

#balanced #budgets #cuts #deferred #easy

I think almost always that what gets me going with a story is the atmosphere, the visual imagery, and then I people it with characters, not the other way around. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#always #around #atmosphere #characters #gets

I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to comics history. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#comics #history #i #illiterate #pretty