#heel

And yet, so many of us do it without families," Nynaeve said. "Without love, without passion beyond our own particular interests. So even while we try to guide the world, we separate ourselves to it. We risk arrogance, Egwene. We always assume we know best, but risk making ourselves unable to fathom the people we claim to serve. ↗

— Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson

#fantasy #robert-jordan #series #wheel-of-time #family

Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother. ↗

— Susan B. Anthony

#different #grandmother #her #invention #law

Just advertising departments with legs and high heels. ↗

— Richard Avedon

#departments #heels #high #high heels #just

Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn't. ↗

— Joe Biden

#achilles heel #civil #civil liberties #heel #liberals

Our dependence on foreign energy sources is our Achilles heel, not just in the realm of diplomacy, but in terms of our future as the world's economic leader. ↗

— Judy Biggert

#achilles heel #dependence #diplomacy #economic #energy

We won't just automatically click our heels and follow the Americans. ↗

— John Howard

#click #follow #heels #just #our

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. ↗

— Robert Burton

#anxiety #birds #cage #chain #climb

Sometimes the wheels of justice grind slowly. ↗

— Terry Waite

#justice #slowly #sometimes #wheels

What doctor does not need platform heels and dark black eyeliner to treat their patients? ↗

— Sarah Chalke

#dark #doctor #does #heels #need

The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels. ↗

— Malcolm De Chazal

#his #idealist #materialist #tiptoe #walks