#ura

That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact. ↗

— Walter Pater

#artifice #assertion #fact #him #life

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets. ↗

— George S. Patton

#courage #educated #face #useless

I wanted to play piano in restaurants in the south of France. I went there on holiday once and I saw this guy playing in an old tuxedo. He was all disheveled, with a whisky glass on the piano. I thought that was the coolest thing. So what's happened to me with 'Twilight' isn't really what I'd planned. ↗

— Robert Pattinson

#coolest thing #france #glass #guy #happened

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. ↗

— George S. Patton

#fear #holding #holding on #longer #minute

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it. ↗

— Jean Paul

#conquering #consists #courage #danger #overlooking

Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#avoid #desire #every #evil #hard

The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance, your prayers, your sacrifice, and he most humbly asks this of you. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#assistance #benefit #christ #desires #feels

Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant? ↗

— Rand Paul

#government #his #own #owner #restaurant

The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage. ↗

— Thucydides

#freedom #happiness #secret

But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods. ↗

— Ivan Pavlov

#man #methods #natural #natural science #objective