#ture

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#copies #few #gallery #many #originals

I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it's impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren't feeling twinkly yourself. A mouth-smile is different. You can fake a mouth-smile any time you want, simply by moving your lips. I've also learned that a real mouth-smile always has an eye-smile to go with it. So watch out, I say, when someone smiles at you but his eyes stay the same. It's sure to be a phony. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#dahl #danny-the-champion-of-the-world #fiction #father

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#about #best #comes #day #future

The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become. ↗

— William Gibson

#future

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man ↗

— T.S. Eliot

#humanity #library #future

The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed. The Economist, December 4, 2003 ↗

— William Gibson

#planning #future

The future you have, tomorrow, won't be the same future you had, yesterday. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#future

But you can build a future out of anything. A scrap, a flicker. The desire to go forward, slowly, one foot at a time. You can build an airy city out of ruins. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#future #hope #steps #future

The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#passage-of-time #time #future

Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#night