#pluck

I believe in aristocracy, though -- if that is the right word, and if a democrat may use it. Not an aristocracy of power, based upon rank and influence, but an aristocracy of the sensitive, the considerate and the plucky. Its members are to be found in all nations and classes, and all through the ages, and there is a secreat understanding between them when they meet. They represent the true human tradition, the one permanent victory of our queer race over cruelty and chaos. Thousands of them perish in obscurity, a few are great names. They are sensitive for others as well as themselves, they are considerate without being fussy, their pluck is not swankiness but power to endure, and they can take a joke. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#considerate #e-m #forster #pluck #sensitive

I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps. ↗

— Peggy Noonan

#because #emotions #fog #i #i love

Everything depends on whether we have for opponents those French tricksters or those daring rascals, the English. I prefer the English. Frequently their daring can only be described as stupidity. In their eyes it may be pluck and daring. ↗

— Manfred von Richthofen

#depends #described #english #everything #eyes

I'm certainly not the first person to be in a relationship with a younger man, but somehow I was plucked out as a bit of a poster girl. ↗

— Demi Moore

#certainly #first #girl #i #man

At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses. ↗

— Ellen Key

#child #every #every step #experience #his

I wonder where you got that idea from? I mean, the idea that it's feeble to change your mind once it's made up. That's a wrong idea, you know. Make up your mind about things, by all means - but if something happens to show that you are wrong, then it is feeble not to change your mind, Elizabeth. Only the strongest people have the pluck to change their minds, and say so, if they see they have been wrong in their ideas. ↗

— Enid Blyton

#changing-your-mind #feeble #ideas #pluck #strenght

It used to bother me - having bigger, fuller brows. I even plucked them once so I'd fit in, but I hated them and couldn't wait for them to grow back. Now I embrace them. I realized the quirky things that make you different are what make you beautiful. ↗

— Lily Collins

#beautiful #bigger #bother #brows #different

She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership). ↗

— O. Henry

#invisible #lapel #ownership #plucked #proclaim

Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#fierce #first #flame #hang #heart

Our job is to sell our clients' merchandise... not ourselves. Our job is to kill the cleverness that makes us shine instead of the product. Our job is to simplify, to tear away the unrelated, to pluck out the weeds that are smothering the product message. ↗

— William Bernbach

#cleverness #clients #instead #job #kill