#dear

Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers. ↗

— Lloyd Alexander

#dickens #friends #greatest #many #mark

Dear Lord; we beg but one boon more: Peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving. ↗

— Joseph Auslander

#beg #boon #dear #hearts #living

Counter-culture celebrates the supposedly natural life of primitive peoples. Its members wear beads, headbands, body paint, and colorful tattered clothing; they yearn to be a tribe. They seem to believe that tribal peoples are nonmaterialistic, spontaneous, and reverently in touch with occult sources of enchantment... ↗

— Marvin Harris

#nature

I make movies for teenage boys. Oh dear, what a crime. ↗

— Michael Bay

#dear #i #make #movies #oh

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#experience #fools #keeps #learn #other

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid. ↗

— Elizabeth Hardwick

#dearly #derive #great #instruction #makes

Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#alive #been #crushed #cynicism #cynics

It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from "Dear Abby" instead of going to Mom and Dad. ↗

— Abigail Van Buren

#advice #commentary #counsel #dad #dear

The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once. ↗

— Abraham Cahan

#dearest #far #life #near #once

Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules. ↗

— Maria Callas

#dear #goddam #i #make #me