#w

I only wanted to help my people. ↗

— Belle Boyd

#i #only #people #wanted

If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in this prison and die than leave it owing allegiance to a government such as yours. ↗

— Belle Boyd

#am #cause #crime #criminal #die

When you're a plebeian you want success, and when you're successful you want to be a plebeian again. ↗

— Paula Cole

#success #successful #want #you

Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature. ↗

— Malcolm Boyd

#both #deeply #differences #essential #huge

Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

#connection #consciousness #formation #formed #habit

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows. ↗

— George Eliot

#best #failure #knows #life #only

It wasn't until late high school and early college that I gained enough size and skill to make me welcome on intramural basketball teams. ↗

— Paul D. Boyer

#college #early #enough #gained #high

The experience reminds me of a favorite saying: Most of the yield from research efforts comes from the coal that is mined while looking for diamonds. ↗

— Paul D. Boyer

#comes #diamonds #efforts #experience #favorite

I want people to leave the cinema feeling that something's been confirmed for them about life. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#been #cinema #confirmed #feeling #i

To be sympathetic without discrimination is so very debilitating. ↗

— Ronald Firbank

#discrimination #sympathetic #very #without