#enter

My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#beyond #committing #entertain #fortune #good

That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them. ↗

— Lars von Trier

#convent #entering #great #great thing #simply

America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub. ↗

— C. Wright Mills

#capital #center #city #financial #hub

This is something I love to do. I've never had any other job. I love singing and entertaining. ↗

— Stephanie Mills

#entertaining #had #i #i love #job

The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal; society can not exist unless it goes on. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#dissemination #enterprise #exist #goes #indispensable

All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That, addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#again #autonomous #back #born #capacity

The self-esteem of western women is founded on physical being (body mass index, youth, beauty). This creates a tricky emphasis on image, but the internalized locus of self-worth saves lives. Western men are very different. In externalizing the source of their self-esteem, they surrender all emotional independence. (Conquest requires two parties, after all.) A man cannot feel like a man without a partner, corporation, team. Manhood is a game played on the terrain of opposites. It thus follows that male sense of self disintegrates when the Other is absent. ↗

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

#boys #center #centre #conquest #femininity

Suddenly, and for the first time, he was at the center of his own life, living it and loving it. ↗

— Mary Balogh

#life #live #love #life

A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way. ↗

— Caroline Gordon

#book #cannot #carpet #enter #magic

If you're heading downtown from Centeral Park, my advice is to take the subway. Flying pigs are faster but way more dangerous ↗

— Rick Riordan

#flying-pigs #funny-and-random #subways #funny