#er

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#trial-and-error #trying #perseverance

A few fly bites cannot stop a spirited horse. ↗

— Mark Twain

#determination #horse #perseverance #spirited #perseverance

The only kinds of fights worth fighting are those you’re going to lose, because somebody has to fight them and lose and lose and lose until someday, somebody who believes as you do wins. ↗

— I.F. Stone

#perseverance #perseverance

The Selection was no longer something that was simply happening to me, but something I was actively a part of. I was an Elite. ↗

— Kiera Cass

#america

In America sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it is a fact. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

#morality #obsession #prudishness #puritanism #sexuality

She couldn’t have been more than twelve years old. In her hands was a sign that said RED-HEADS RULE! with a little crown painted in the corner and tiny stars everywhere. I knew I was the only redhead in the competition, and I noticed that her hair and mine were very nearly the same shade. ↗

— Kiera Cass

#redheads #america

For women especially, virginity has become the easy answer- the morality quick fix. You can be vapid, stupid, and unethical, but so long as you've never had sex, you're a "good" (i.e. "moral) girl and therefore worthy of praise. ↗

— Jessica Valenti

#feminism #purity-myth #virginity #america

It is right to hate sin, but not to hate the sinner. ↗

— Giovanni Guareschi

#right #sin #sinner

We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world - bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are whores for power and oil with hate and fear in our hearts ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#decadent #u-s #america

The answer is that we don't choose our freaks, they choose us. ↗

— Steve Almond

#freaks #america