#us

But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#causes #disappear #else #identifiable #india

Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#beauty #best #does #donna #due

Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#more #paganism #piety #than

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#conception #dead #experience #experiences #gain

When I was 14, I thought I was the coolest kid in school because I told everyone the jokes in FHM. ↗

— Megan Fox

#coolest #everyone #i #jokes #kid

The theologians have recognized that the ideal is the imitation of God. If we be a part of such an organic thing, this thing is God to us, as I am God to the cells that compose me. ↗

— Charles Fort

#cells #compose #god #i #i am

Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#environment #heredity #life #make #out

To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death. ↗

— Garrett Fort

#dead #death #die #far #glorious

Nothing of the kind; they do all these things in their houses and sheds, with common charcoal fires, and a quantity of straw to stop up the crevices in the doors and windows. ↗

— Robert Fortune

#common #doors #fires #houses #kind

The plants are principally kept in large pots arranged in rows along the sides of narrow paved walks, with the houses of the gardeners at the entrance through which the visitors pass to the gardens. ↗

— Robert Fortune

#arranged #entrance #gardeners #gardens #houses