#wit

We only understand that which already is within us. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#only #understand #us #which #within

The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a country without a free press, where European styles and forms are distrusted and where the female half of the population became literate only in this generation. ↗

— James Buchan

#arabic #became #country #distrusted #european

Anyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination. I was scared all the time. My hands didn't shake but inside I was shaking. ↗

— James L. Farmer, Jr.

#anyone #civil #civil rights #civil rights movement #during

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#common #delirium #love #love is #many

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#death #eat #hope #slowly #starve

Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#chinese #comprehending #inescapable #inevitable #many

Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that in it we ask God to bear witness to the promises we make with the implicit expectation that He will hold us accountable for the manner in which we honor them. ↗

— James L. Buckley

#ask #bear #derives #expectation #fact

I think we will see better vaccines within the next 15 years, but I'm not a scientist and am focused on the short-term - what will happen in the interim. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#better #focused #happen #i #i think

The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#been #complete #god #grace #here

Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment. ↗

— Owen Feltham

#humanity #liable #like #moment #rudder