#toward

The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him. ↗

— Auguste Rodin

#bending #blossoms #carry #confidant #cordial

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows. ↗

— Frances Rodman

#brave #brightness #courage #fail #faith

Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#both #definition #directed #gays #great

After all, it's the future of business communication that we're looking toward. ↗

— Jim Barksdale

#business #communication #future #looking #toward

I like to get out and get up the court, using my speed and aggressiveness toward the hoop. ↗

— LeBron James

#court #get #hoop #i #like

If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

#attitude #becomes #contents #demand #entailed

My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#out #own #sensibility #steers #their

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#inefficient #instead #instrument #losses #multiplies

But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters. There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you'll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer. ↗

— Adam Johnson

#certain #characters #dictated #farmer #fisherman

I have not been more robust towards female rather than male assembly members and I do not believe I have been remotely sexist. ↗

— Boris Johnson

#been #believe #female #i #i do