#ura

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#also #down #listen #sit #speak

Persephone is just a name for a spirit of beauty at a certain time in history. I'm sure we could argue a biblical place for her if it matters. Your wife has the name of that pagan goddess, but the fact remains that she's your mortal bride in the Year of Our Lord 1888- and she's Catholic, so pray for her, damn it, I don't care how confusing it is. And pray for us, to anyone. If the dead are about to flood Athens, divine goodwill couldn't hurt. Your prayers can be in Hindu, if you like. Now go home. ↗

— Leanna Renee Hieber

#love #mythology #persephone #prayer #strangely-beautiful-series

I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#anything #cook #food #i #know

If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable. ↗

— Donald Trump

#balancing #instead #interested #make #more

For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous. ↗

— Queen Victoria

#attempt #brutal #comprehensible #courageous #else

I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens. ↗

— E. B. White

#discouraging #i #know #literature #more

The French, I think, in general, are strangely prolix in their natural history. ↗

— Gilbert White

#general #history #i #i think #natural

The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#every #guiding #life #motto #natural

People keep asking if I believe in ghosts. If you're talking about poltergeists and weird, supernatural phenomena, not really. ↗

— Jerry Zucker

#asking #believe #ghosts #i #i believe

If left-wing extremism continues to flourish in parts which have natural resources of minerals, the climate for investment would certainly be affected. ↗

— Anil Agarwal

#certainly #climate #continues #extremism #flourish