#toward

That religious earnestness forever tends toward fright and hence towards brittleness and inquisition is clear enough in mythology and history. ↗

— Thomas Howard

#earnestness #enough #forever #fright #hence

In regard of the rich grace and wisdom of his love toward his people; for who sees not, but that it is a curse to be unready as these foolish virgins, who were therefore shut out. ↗

— Thomas Shepard

#foolish #grace #his #love #out

I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff. ↗

— Naomi Watts

#books #darker #drama #find #i

I use this as a paradigm for our whole attitude toward life, what you did was you worked very hard, you try to understand and try to direct these complicated, powerful forces and at the very end of the struggle you've made no progress at all. That upon discovering that, you've raised to a lofty moral height, and you've accepted your fate, and somehow went on. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#fate #interview #moral #attitude

Work as if there's no one to help you, and learn as if everybody is with you. ↗

— saransh garg

#creativity #hard-work #leadership #motivational-inspirational #oppurtunity

As it happened, I didn't grow up to be the kind of woman who is the heroine in a Western, and although the men I have known have had many virtues and have taken me to live in many places I have come to love, they have never been John Wayne, and they have never taken me to the bend in the river where the cottonwoods grow. Deep in that part of my heart where artificial rain forever falls, that is still the line I want to hear. ↗

— Joan Didion

#love

I'm working toward a CD that will have all of you dancing like crazy. ↗

— Paula Abdul

#crazy #dancing #i #like #toward

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character. ↗

— Hosea Ballou

#children #commences #education #every #formation

Toward the end of my pregnancy, I felt really big - I gained about 40 pounds, which is a lot for my size. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#big #end #felt #gained #i

But particularly when the media profess to strive toward objectivity, gatekeepers play a crucial role in helping people navigate the news to make educated political decisions. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#crucial role #decisions #educated #gatekeepers #helping