“Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance! What hymning of cancerous vices may we not languish over as sublimest art in the safe remoteness of a strange language and artificial phrase! Yet we keep a repugnance to rheumatism and other painful effects when presented in our personal experience.” HumansMayArtBeautifulLanguageHuman BeingsEffectsStrangePerspectiveHorrorSafeDistancePainfulVicesPhrasesArtificialBeautiful ThingsInventorPersonal ExperiencesDampHutsPicturesqueLanguishRemotenessPerspective On Things Book:Works of George Eliot ...: Daniel Deronda Source: Works of George Eliot ...: Daniel Deronda
“History will remember the inhabitants of this century as the people who went from Kitty Hawk to the moon in 66 years, only to languish for the next 30 in low Earth orbit. At the core of the risk-free society is a self-indulgent failure of nerve.” PeopleYearsSelfEarthRememberScienceNextRiskCenturyMoonLowsMathPhysicsCoreNervesFree SocietyOrbitHawksKittiesSelf IndulgentLanguish Author:Buzz Aldrin
“Courage does not panic; it prays. Courage does not bemoan; it believes. Courage does not languish; it listens” BelieveDoePrayingPanicLanguish Author:Max Lucado
“Wealth and speed are what the world admires, what each pursues. Railways, express mails, steamships and every possible facility for communications are the achievement in which the civilized world view and revels, only to languish in mediocrity by that very fact. Indeed, the effect of this diffusion is to spread the culture of the mediocre.” WorldFactsCulturePoliticsWealthViewsEffectsCommunicationInternetAchievementSpreadSpeedAdmirePursueCivilizedMediocrityMailMediocreFacilityWorld ViewRailwayDiffusionLanguish Book:Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims Source: Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims
“I love Vermont because of her hills and valleys, her scenery and invigorating climate, but most of all because of her indomitable people. They are a race of pioneers who have almost beggared themselves to serve others. If the spirit of liberty should vanish in other parts of the union and support of our institutions should languish, it could all be replenished from the generous store held by the people of this brave little state of Vermont.” PeopleIfsShouldLittlesStatesSpiritRaceLibertySupportInstitutionsBraveUnionsClimateStoresHillsGenerousValleysPioneersSceneryVermontInvigoratingIndomitableLanguishHills And Valleys Author:Calvin Coolidge
“Every gift contains a danger. Whatever gift we have we are compelled to express. And if the expression of that gift is blocked, distorted, or merely allowed to languish, then the gift turns against us, and we suffer.” IfsMotivationalSufferingTurnsDangerExpressionCompelledBlockedLanguish Author:Lyndon B. Johnson