#lid

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#goes #hear #heart #idea #people

The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador attain liberty, and inspired our forefathers to shed their blood for the United States' independence, cannot die. Today, this spirit of solidarity must and will empower all of us to rebuild Haiti. ↗

— Jean-Bertrand Aristide

#black #blood #cannot #colombia #die

I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere hadn't changed the climatic balance. Of course it has. There is no valid argument for denial. ↗

— David Attenborough

#argument #astounded #atmosphere #balance #changed

When a woman reaches twenty-six in America, she's on the slide. It's downhill all the way from then on. It doesn't give you a tremendous feeling of confidence and well-being. ↗

— Lauren Bacall

#confidence #downhill #feeling #give #reaches

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#fame #light #like #river #solid

The sea from Dunkirk to Dover during these days of the evacuation looked like any coastal road in England on a bank holiday. It was solid with shipping. ↗

— Douglas Bader

#bank #coastal #days #dover #during

Most drama in our lives is really rather squalid. ↗

— Tom Baker

#lives #most #our #our lives #rather

All fantasy should have a solid base in reality. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#fantasy #reality #should #solid

In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn't tightly screwed down had slid into Southern California. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#angeles #been #california #collected #country

I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man's future, that prediction would be the contrary of reassuring. ↗

— Julien Benda

#concerning #contrary #could #even #examination