#ty

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it. ↗

— William Shenstone

#apprehension #envy #fear #our #superiority

Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former. ↗

— William Shenstone

#beauty #diminish #former #grandeur #increase

I didn't mind studying. Obviously math and the physical science subjects interested me more than some of the more artistic subjects, but I think I was a pretty good student. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#good #good student #i #i think #interested

But when I was selected, after my very first tour of squadron duty, to become one of the youngest candidates for the test pilot school, I began to realize, maybe you are a little bit better. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#become #began #better #bit #candidates

So everything turned out fine, and we were given the opportunity to go to Washington and be briefed on the project of man in space, and given the opportunity to choose whether we wanted to get involved or not. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#choose #everything #fine #get #given

You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#applied #because #being #believe #book

Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature. ↗

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#nature #never #pity #those #who

....let her be loved not only for her beauty and amiable character, but also for her strength of mind and loftiness of purpose, which enliven and raise the feeble and the timid and ward off all vain thoughts. Let her be the pride of her country and let her command respect. ↗

— Jose Rizal y Alonso

#country #love #purpose-of-living #strength #women

Black music has become a commercial commodity. Live performances are not so accessible as they were previously. It use to be possible to go to the bar on the corner and hear music. It was available for a fifteen cent beer. ↗

— Archie Shepp

#available #bar #become #beer #black

Rap actually took root in the Negro community, and then in the Hispanic community, long before it impacted on the larger American community as a whole. ↗

— Archie Shepp

#american #before #community #hispanic #hispanic community