#ems

It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations. ↗

— Maurice Chevalier

#furs #jewels #men #quotations #same

I endured many weeks of it, but I had a big background in martial arts and fighting as a kid, so kind of all the problems got brushed away and I was ready. ↗

— Jason Statham

#away #background #big #brushed #endured

Declare this smite time, extracting precious gems and wholly hours you share to fruitcake a friend so dear. ↗

— Bradley Chicho

#declare #extracting #friend #gems #hours

It was really written as most, I think, books are by writers - for themselves. There was something that just had to be written, in a way that it had to be written. If you know what I mean. ↗

— Norton Juster

#had #i #i think #just #know

Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

#because #deems #every #every man #hardest

The art world seems so much bigger than it was when I was growing up. ↗

— China Chow

#art world #bigger #growing #growing up #i

The often cruel behavior of Christians toward unbelievers and even toward dissenters among themselves is shocking evidence of the function of that image in relation to values and behavior. ↗

— Carol P. Christ

#behavior #christians #cruel #dissenters #even

Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#achieving #most #notice #reassure #something

I had all of one nanosecond to savor the news before we had to move on to other problems. ↗

— Warren Christopher

#had #i #move #move on #news

The divine law indeed has excluded women from this ministry, but they endeavour to thrust themselves into it; and since they can effect nothing of themselves, they do all through the agency of others. ↗

— John Chrysostom

#divine #effect #endeavour #excluded #indeed