#peaks

An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#honest #honest man #man #may #offence

My point is there's a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It's a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#factor #generally #hidden #ireland #just

He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero. ↗

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

#dumb #genius #hero #seldom #speaks

The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#book #certain #challenge #chosen #criticize

A child speaks more sense than an adult half of the time. ↗

— Zoe Saldana

#child #half #more #sense #speaks

If the picture speaks to me, if it tells me something about myself, then I want it. Then I have to have it. ↗

— Norton Simon

#i #me #myself #picture #something

Every season has its peaks and valleys. What you have to try to do is eliminate the Grand Canyon. ↗

— Andy Van Slyke

#eliminate #every #grand #grand canyon #peaks

My peak? Would I even have one? I hardly had had anything you could call a life. A few ripples. some rises and falls. But that's it. Almost nothing. Nothing born of nothing. I'd loved and been loved, but I had nothing to show. It was a singularly plain, featureless landscape. I felt like I was in a video game. A surrogate Pacman, crunching blindly through a labyrinth of dotted lines. The only certainty was my death. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#death #falling #featureless #labyrinth #nothing

People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears, assuages anxiety. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#anxiety #blame #fear #fears #hate

Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#back #church #i #i do #me