#wit

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it. ↗

— George Eliot

#happiness #may #prepare #self #should

Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them. ↗

— Louise Bogan

#any #arts #cannot #exist #feeling

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms. ↗

— George Eliot

#country #deal #explanation #great #great deal

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#i #my soul #said #soul #still

I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis. ↗

— Humphrey Bogart

#martinis #never #scotch #should #switched

I didn't get over 1300 walks without knowing the strike zone. ↗

— Wade Boggs

#i #knowing #over #strike #walks

It is the inspiration of the Olympic Games that drives people not only to compete but to improve, and to bring lasting spiritual and moral benefits to the athlete and inspiration to those lucky enough to witness the athletic dedication. ↗

— Herb Elliott

#athletic #benefits #bring #compete #dedication

No, we always had something to do because I did all the wave runners and jet skis and boats approaching the atolls and stuff like that, so you could do that without showing the actual atoll or the set that you're going towards, but detailing all those guys racing towards it. ↗

— David R. Ellis

#always #approaching #because #boats #could

The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

#complete #counterpoint #involvement #itself #meaning

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#ago #disappeared #had #hands #happened