#plains

No one can say 'He jests at scars who never felt a wound' for I have never for one moment been in a state of mind to which even the imagination of serious pain was less than intolerable. If any man is safe from the danger of under-estimating this adversary, I am that man. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#preface #imagination

A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion. ↗

— Minna Antrim

#complains #fool #indigestion #moral #pleasure

I'd have to say that my favorite thing is writing a song that really says how I feel, what I believe - and it even explains the world to myself better than I knew it. ↗

— Jackson Browne

#better #even #explains #favorite #feel

Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven? ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#amid #been #called #charming #country

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. ↗

— William Arthur Ward

#demonstrates #explains #good #good teacher #inspires

That problem has been going on since men and women and their children moved from the plains and into caves. How many times have you heard Howard Cunningham talking to Marian about shopping? Too many. ↗

— Henry Winkler

#been #caves #children #cunningham #going

It isn't that NPR is matriarchal but that it has dedicated itself to not being patriarchal in its outlook and presentation, stipulating from the outset that its headline voices would not resound across the fruited plains from big male bags of air sent from Mount Olympus. ↗

— James Wolcott

#air #bags #being #big #dedicated

My son complains about headaches. I tell him all the time, when you get out of bed, it's feet first! ↗

— Henny Youngman

#bed #complains #feet #first #get

In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you. ↗

— Knut Hamsun

#carefree #explains #free state #happy #houses

Poland, of course, was the key country. I remember Stalin telling me that the plains of Poland were the invasion route of Europe to Russia and always had been, and therefore he had to control Poland. ↗

— W. Averell Harriman

#been #control #country #course #europe