#edge

For me, there is nothing worse than the knowledge that my life holds nothing for me but being a writer. ↗

When I tested for Billy Budd, I had that kind of confidence that comes with the certainty that you're not going to get something. I was very rough around the edges. ↗

— Terence Stamp

#billy #certainty #comes #confidence #edges

Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations. ↗

— Lucy Stone

#henceforth #knowledge #leaves #nations #tree

I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child. ↗

— Anne Sullivan

#am #certain #child #deal #enter

Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular; and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He he glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal. ↗

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

#been #blessed #everyone #forbidden #general

Were I more conversant with literature and its great names, I could go on quoting them ad infinitum and acknowledge my debt for the merit you have been generous enough to find in my work. ↗

— Knut Hamsun

#ad #been #could #debt #enough

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel. ↗

— Augustus Hare

#knowledge #mankind #sail #thought #vessel

A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power. ↗

— Mark Rutherford

#our #ourselves #power #true #true knowledge

In our pledge every day, we pledge one Nation under God with liberty and justice for all. ↗

— Patrick J. Kennedy

#every #every day #god #justice #liberty

I'm a conservative kind of person. I don't think rightwing is quite the same thing. But I acknowledge my conservatism of temperament. ↗