#wards

The moral and social aspiration proper to American life is, of course, the aspiration vaguely described by the word democratic; and the actual achievement of the American nation points towards an adequate and fruitful definition of the democratic ideal. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#actual #adequate #american #american life #aspiration

You have started the book with this bubble over your head that contains a cathedral full of fire - that contains a novel so vast and great and penetrating and bright and dark that it will put all other novels ever written to shame. And then, as you get towards the end, you begin to realise, no, it's just this book. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#book #bright #bubble #cathedral #contains

I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory. ↗

— Marie Curie

#be kind #dark #day #dress #enough

When I start playing I'm just a rollercoaster of sound. I don't know what's coming next, I never do, and I sit and sign and talk to the people afterwards. ↗

— Dick Dale

#coming #i #just #know #never

Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save. ↗

— John Gay

#cowards #cruel #delight #love #mercy

I love awards, especially if I get them. ↗

— Ben Gazzara

#especially #get #i #i love #love

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us. ↗

— Dorothy Dix

#comes #cowards #dark #day #dreading

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery. ↗

— Graham Greene

#another #any #bearing #condemned #courage

Lord, when the song wants to pick up and go a little faster towards the end, it's hard for me to resist. ↗

— Levon Helm

#faster #go #hard #little #lord

It's a wonderful world. You can't go backwards. You're always moving forward. It's the wonderful part about life. And that's terrific. ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

#always #backwards #forward #go #life