“You know how often the turning down this street or that, the accepting or rejecting of an invitation, may deflect the whole current of our lives into some other channel. Are we mere leaves, fluttered hither and thither by the wind, or are we rather, with every conviction that we are free agents, carried steadily along to a definite and pre-determined end?” KnowsMayEndsWholeAcceptingKnow HowOur LivesStreetsWindMereCurrentsConvictionDeterminedAgentsDefiniteInvitationsRejectingFree Agents Book:Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics) Source: Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)
“Do not consider any act of service as demeaning. Sweeping the streets, for example, is not below your dignity. Do you not sweep the floor of your homes? Do you not scrub and wash off dirt? When you undertake such tasks, the villagers will also gladly share in them. Why feel ashamed to be good? The ridicule that may be cast on you has been the reward of many saints. It will soon fade away. Muhammad was driven out of Mecca by those who could not appreciate his teachings. Jesus was crucified. But their names resound in the heart of millions.” FeelsHeartMayHas BeensHomeJesusNamesMillionsShareStreetsTeachingExampleAppreciateDignityTasksRewardsSaintCastsBe GoodDrivenAshamedFadesDirtRidiculeMuhammadSweepingFade AwayMeccaDemeaningActs Of Service Author:Sathya Sai Baba
“The moment that you feel that just possibly you are walking down the street naked...that's the moment you may be starting to get it right.” FeelsMayMomentsStreetsWalkingStartingNaked Author:Neil Gaiman
“Honest rejection of Christ, however mistaken, will be forgiven and healed ... but to evade the Son of Man, to look the other way, to pretend you haven't noticed, to become suddenly absorbed in something on the other side of the street, to leave the receiver off the telephone because it might be He who was ringing up, to leave unopened certain letters in a strange handwriting because they might be from Him -- this is a different matter. You may not be certain yet whether you ought to be a Christian; but you do know you ought to be a Man, not an ostrich, hiding its head in the sand.” KnowsMenWayLooksMayDifferentMatterMightChristianCertainSidesChristStreetsHonestHavensStrangeSonOughtLettersRejectionSandHidingMistakenForgivenTelephonesBe A ManHealedReceiverHandwritingOstriches Author:C. S. Lewis
“You and I have formerly seen warm debates and high political passions. But gentlemen of different politics would then speak to each other and separate the business of the Senate from that of society. It is not so now. Men who have been intimate all their lives, cross the streets to avoid meeting, and turn their heads another way, lest they should be obliged to touch their hats. This may do for young men with whom passion is enjoyment. But it is afflicting to peaceable minds. Tranquility is the old man's milk.” MenWayShouldMindMayHas BeensDifferentYoungPoliticalTurnsPassionSpeakStreetsCrossesMeetingsWarmDebateYoung ManIntimateGentlemanEnjoymentHatsOld ManMilkSenateTranquilityAnother WayObliged Author:Thomas Jefferson
“Fashion is not style. Nay, we can say more: Fashion is instead of style. Style is an idiom springing spontaneously from the personality but deliberately maintained. If you have no personality, you may be able to save your face and, possibly, your entire anatomy by following the current fashion, but all we shall know about you, when we see you coming down the street, is that you had enough money to buy a glossy magazine and were sufficiently cunning to work out the cut of the garments shown therein.” IfsKnowsMayEnoughAbleFacesCuttingStreetsFashionStylePersonalityCurrentsFollowingWork OutMagazinesYour FaceCunningGarmentsHad EnoughAnatomyIdiom Author:Quentin Crisp