#trait

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#country #his #humanity #most #pacifist

I build a wall around myself. I'm hard to get to know. Any trait you have, it gets worse as you go along. ↗

— Diane Keaton

#any #around #build #get #gets

A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth. ↗

— Richard Avedon

#art #inaacuracy #perspective #photography #portraits

There are only two styles of portrait painting: the serious and the smirk. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#expression #portrait #serious #art

The snapshots in CHINA: Portrait of a People are not meant to be works of art. I was too preoccupied with participating, with reveling in the moment, to worry about their perfection. Their purpose, then, is to form a candid portrait of China exactly as China presented itself to me. ↗

— Tom Carter

#china #chinese #photography #photography-book #photos

There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#photography #portraits #beauty

Traffic is about drugs. As detailed a portrait as I can muster about what is happening in the drug world, from top to bottom, from policy to how things move on the street. ↗

— Steven Soderbergh

#bottom #detailed #happening #how #i

Why would I kill someone I don't know, when I know so many people who irritate me, and havent't killed any of them? ↗

— J.D. Robb

#death

Those women who had gone out with Germans were grabbed and treated very badly, often shaved totally bald so that everyone could see who they were. Some were taken prisoners. There had been so much suffering during the war because of the betrayal of those collaborators, so many killed and hurt because of what they had done to families, that the mood for revenge against the traitors was very high. It was not right, but it was understandable. ↗

— Diet Eman

#judgment #revenge #traitor #understanding #diet

The Death Eaters can't all be pure-blood, there aren't enough pure-blood wizards left," said Hermione stubbornly. "I expect most of them are half-bloods pretending to be pure. It's only Muggle-borns they hate, they'd be quite happy to let you and Ron join up" "There is no way they'd let me be a Death Eater!" said Ron indignantly...."My whole family are blood traitors! That's as bad as Muggle-borns to Death Eaters!" "And they'd love to have me," said Harry sarcastically. "We'd be best pals if they didn't keep trying to do me in. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#death-eaters #funny #humor #muggle-born #muggles