#apart

I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break. ↗

— Herodotus

#apart #break #cheat #cities #feared

That wasn't a bad price for a first book. My agent upped it as much as possible. I was 27 and had nothing behind me. I was working like a fool to earn a living and pay for my apartment. ↗

— Patricia Highsmith

#apartment #bad #behind #book #earn

'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it's inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#apart #class #culture #ethnic #fact

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#apart #between #compassion #continuous #evil

I personally felt that his ad hominen attacks on British architects were not the sort of thing a Prince of Wales should be doing because, apart from anything else, they put various people out of business. ↗

— Anthony Holden

#anything #apart #architects #attacks #because

The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast. ↗

— Bob Hope

#apart #dogs #fast #miles #siberia

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart. ↗

— William Dean Howells

#both #goodness #heart #hold #must

In this sport luck and tragedy are only a few hundredths of seconds apart from each other. ↗

— Jacky Ickx

#each #few #hundredths #luck #only

All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena. ↗

— Dean Inge

#behind #consists #essentially #faith #natural

Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#fierce #first #flame #hang #heart