#isg

To be loved to madness--such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#dissatisfaction #drama-queen #self-delusion #unhappiness #love

I am remarkably pleased with Obama. I had grave misgivings about him. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#am #grave #had #him #i

I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America. ↗

— Bert Williams

#america #anything #been #being #colored

Here is the life you have tried to throw away. here is your second chance. Here is the destiny you have tried to shake off by inventing a hundred false roles, a hundred false identities for yourself. It will look at first like a disaster but is is really good fortune in disguise, since fate too knows how to follow your evasion through a hundred forms of its own. Now you will become at last the one you intended to be. ↗

— David Malouf

#inspirational #life #inspirational

Elizabeth Bachinsky, Darren Bifford, Jason Camelot, Rachel Cyr, Tara Flanagan, Lilly Fiorentino, John Goldbach, David McGimpsey, Evan Munday, Sachiko Murakami, Ian Orti, Marisa Grizenko, Christina Palassio, Mike Spry, Darren Wershler. ↗

— Jon Paul Fiorentino

#disgusting #humanistic-individualism #inspirational #light #namedropping

The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of one's inner power. ↗

— Xun Zi

#disgrace #honor #inner #must #power

Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime. ↗

— Vittorio Alfieri

#crime #disgrace #does #punishment

The man forget not, though in rags he lies, and know the mortal through a crown's disguise. ↗

— Mark Akenside

#disguise #forget #know #lies #man

As I suffer in the defence of my Country, I must consider this hour as the most glorious of my life -Remember that I die as becomes a British Officer, while the manner of my death must reflect disgrace on your Commander. ↗

— John Andre

#british #commander #consider #country #death

I'm writing a film. With our access to these powerful media, we're going to take over, because it's really disgusting what is put out there now to be consumed. ↗

— Lisa Bonet

#because #consumed #disgusting #film #going