#sigh

Insecurity kills all that is beautiful. ↗

— Shaun Morgan

#inspirational #beauty

Later in life, I learnt that many things one may require have to be weighed against one's dignity, which can be an insuperable barrier against advancement in almost any direction. However, in those days, choice between dignity and unsatisfied curiosity was less clear to me as a cruel decision that had to be made. ↗

— Anthony Powell

#insightful #poignant #life

My philosophy is to take one day at a time. I don't worry about the future. Tomorrow is even out of sight for me. ↗

— Bobby Darin

#day #even #future #i #me

There are two sighs of relief every night in the life of an opera manager. The first comes when the curtain goes up The second sigh of relief comes when the final curtain goes down without any disaster, and one realizes, gratefully, that the miracle has happened again. ↗

— Rudolf Bing

#any #comes #curtain #disaster #down

Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation. ↗

— Bette Davis

#becomes #creation #insight #just #trade

Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm. ↗

— Augustine Birrell

#friendship #heart #in print #makes #print

There are so many scenarios here. We tried to prepare for the worst summer in 40 years and build assumptions based on that. We're preparing for the worst, but we're hoping for the best. And I've told people the end is in sight. ↗

— Gray Davis

#based #best #build #end #here

I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

#i #inspiring #nakedness #seen #sight

The plan we developed to deal with al Qaeda depended on developing sources of human and technical intelligence that could give us insights into his plans at the tactical level. This is easy to say but hard to accomplish. ↗

— Cofer Black

#al #could #deal #depended #developed

Once I had a better beat, I needed to have an even better one. And somewhere in that climbing, I lost sight of, sort of, my moral and ethical underpinnings. ↗

— Jayson Blair

#better #climbing #ethical #even #had