#ares

Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#judgment #next #pearls #rarest #sound

If something scares me, then I have to do it. My biggest fear in life is fear. ↗

— Sheryl Lee

#fear #i #life #me #scares

I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now? ↗

— John Lennon

#disproved #dragons #dreams #even #everything

Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#become #books #companions #dearest #delights

All that schooling never prepares you for the reality of life. ↗

— Juliette Lewis

#never #prepares #reality #schooling #you

The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed. ↗

— Anita Loos

#america #american #american life #billions #charm

Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

#cares #conventional #conventional wisdom #either #football

An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven. ↗

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#christian #earth #head #heaven #his

Do not suppose, dearest Sir, that I am so short-sighted as to destroy my life by English preaching, or any other preaching. St. Paul did much good by his preaching, but how much more by his writings. ↗

— Henry Martyn

#any #dearest #destroy #did #english

There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust. ↗

— Fidel Castro

#holocaust #nothing