#toward

For anyone to open their heart, they need the right atmosphere, and something to prompt them. For my mother it was her trip abroad: she was in a very relaxed, understanding environment. I was very sympathetic towards her. ↗

— Jung Chang

#anyone #atmosphere #environment #heart #her

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#everything #eyes #fix #make #perfection

The judge turned his back towards me, sitting back on his judge's chair, while I was in the witness stand being questioned. The whole courtroom was full of these anarchists, leftists, communists and Jewish lobbyists. ↗

— Ernst Zundel

#being #chair #communists #courtroom #full

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#behave #got #helpful #human #human race

There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#away #climbing #difficult #girl #kissing

You know what black hatred women feel toward me as soon as they see me, until I return inside my shell, they use every possible weapon. As soon as a generous man tries to help me out, a woman is here to hold his arm and prevent him from acting. ↗

— Camille Claudel

#arm #black #every #feel #generous

Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#death #does #even #everything #express

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#began #birth #day #hurrying #me

Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#heart #interest #legal #legal rights #rights

I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet. ↗

— Nadia Comaneci

#am #away #because #beneath #challenge