#swerve

Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company. ↗

— Elizabeth I

#differ #friend #minds #opinions #scant

If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path. ↗

— Mary Webb

#kind #must #often #path #stop

Art always penetrates the particular fissures in one's psychic life. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#renaissance #swerve #art

This morning, as I was driving to work, I mistook a big brown box on the side of the road for a deer. It was dark, and I swerved at the last second, and even though it wasn’t a deer, I still managed to nail that son of a bitch. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#box #deer #driving #funny #humor

A comparably capacious embrace of beauty and pleasure - an embrace that somehow extends to death as well as life, to dissolution as well as creation - characterizes Montaigne's restless reflections on matter in motion, Cervantes's chronicle of his mad knight, Michelangelo's depiction of flayed skin, Leonardo's sketches of whirlpools, Caravaggio's loving attention to the dirty soles of Christ's feet. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#cervantes #montaigne #renaissance #swerve #art

But, sir, I shall take the path of duty and shall not swerve from it. ↗

— Benjamin F. Wade

#i #path #shall #sir #swerve