#ty

I probably was as bad as a security guard as I was as a tie salesman. ↗

— David Hyde Pierce

#guard #i #probably #salesman #security

He's Darkness. Unpleasant. I wouldn't trust him. Nor do I trust every mortal I meet. I don't know where evil comes from, and frankly it doesn't matter. Not right now. Histories and myths are renamed and reinvented eternally across the world. I can't speak to that. What I do know? This is your story. ↗

— Leanna Renee Hieber

#history #myth #religion #beauty

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#grows #love #love is #since #soul

No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#due #duty #eulogy #him #his

Metaphysical thinking will always no doubt be a strong element in her mentality, and it is to be hoped that she will never lose her great, her sovereign powers in that direction. ↗

— Sri Aurobindo

#direction #doubt #element #great #her

The American bards shall be marked for generosity and affection and for encouraging competitors… . The great poets are also to be known by the absence in them of tricks and by the justification of perfect personal candor… . How beautiful is candor! All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#beauty

Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence. ↗

— George Steiner

#language #larger #meaningfully #much #only

These same people seem to forget that mother also took a lot of chances with the type of roles she played. ↗

— Isabella Rossellini

#chances #forget #lot #mother #people

The work of Nigeria is not complete for as long as there is any one Nigerian who goes to bed on empty stomach. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#bed #complete #empty #empty stomach #goes

We've set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not up, but down. The economy has gone up. ↗

— Bruce Babbitt

#aside #down #economy #forests #gone