#ty

If we had been less reliant on technology and the security that we enjoy in being divorced from what we used to know, maybe things would have turned out differently. ↗

— Heather Donahue

#being #differently #divorced #enjoy #had

I find celebrity status difficult to bear when I am in the company of my mother. ↗

— Phil Donahue

#bear #celebrity #celebrity status #company #difficult

Well, it seems to me Lincoln, I suppose, is kind of a model of a particular sort of presidency, a presidency that first of all is elected by a minority of the votes. ↗

— David Herbert Donald

#first #first of all #i #kind #lincoln

Yes! thank God; human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty - it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it. ... There are few prophets in the world; few sublimely beautiful women; few heroes. I can't afford to give all my love and reverence to such rarities: I want a great deal of those feelings for my everyday fellow-men, especially for the few in the foreground of the great multitude, whose faces I know, whose hands I touch, for whom I have to make way with kindly courtesy. ↗

— George Eliot

#love #beauty

And on election night I'd go down to city hall in El Paso, Texas and cover the election. In those days, of course, we didn't have exit polls. You didn't know who had won the election until they actually counted the votes. I thought that was exciting too. ↗

— Sam Donaldson

#city #city hall #counted #course #cover

Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven. ↗

— John Donne

#despair #heaven #hell #joy #serenity

To marry the Irish is to look for poverty. ↗

— J. P. Donleavy

#look #marry #poverty

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face. ↗

— John Donne

#face #grace #hath #i #nor

When when my first feature opportunity came along, I wasn't prepared, but we did it in about 17 days. ↗