#ny

I'll try anything once. ↗

— Yancy Butler

#i #once #try

My advice for life: dance and sing your song while the party is still on. ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#dance #finding-harmony #finding-your-voice #happiness #inspiring-quotes

France is to me the heroine in the romance of all the nations of all time. This feeling was born in me years ago when I read how her noble sons had defended America in its cradle. Today I am proud that I am one of the millions who will come to save our heroine from the clutches of the villain from across the Rhine. ↗

— William Arthur Sirmon

#france #germany #historical-romance #history #inspirational

It's the closest place to nowhere that she can think of. And nowhere is exactly where she wants to be today. ↗

— Lisa Genova

#inspirational #love-anthony #inspirational

Kropp on the other hand is a thinker. He proposes that a declaration of war should be a kind of popular festival with entrance-tickets and bands, like a bull fight. Then in the arena the ministers and generals of the two countries, dressed in bathing-drawers and armed with clubs, can have it out on themselves. Whoever survives the country wins. That would be much simpler and more than just this arrangement, where the wrong people do the fighting ↗

— Erich Maria Remarque

#germany #indignation #inspirational #literature #reality

Christ has no body now on earth but yours, no hands but yours, no feet but yours, Yours are the eyes through which to look out Christ's compassion to the world Yours are the feet with which he is to go about doing good; Yours are the hands with which he is to bless men now. ↗

— Teresa of Ávila

#religious-right #men

Women get lonely, while men merely get horny. I should know, because I’d feel lonely even if I were surrounded by 11 clones of myself. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#lonely #men

[I]f you seek in every way to minimise my firm beliefs by your anti-feminist attacks, please recall that a small dagger or knife point can pierce a great, bulging sack and that a small fly can attack a great lion and speedily put him to flight. ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#beliefs #clichés #convictions #dignity #double-standards

When something poses as obstacle to you,surmount it and use it as a miracle to move on to greater height. ↗

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#conqueror #ifeanyi-enoch-onuoha #inspirational #life #living

In a country where only men are encouraged, one must be one's own inspiration. ↗

— Tegla Loroupe

#marathon #running #women #inspirational