#able

The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#filled #full #having #large #mind

Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him. ↗

— Cardinal Richelieu

#find #give #give me #hang #him

You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I've learned, each person on a team is an extension of your leadership; if they feel empowered by you they will magnify your power to lead. ↗

— Tom Ridge

#each #empower #empowered #enable #extension

The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself. ↗

— Laura Riding

#constant #create #end #even #give

Out of doing all that experimentation with sound I decided I wanted to do it with live musicians. To take repetition, take music fragments and make it live. Musicians would be able to play it and create this kind of abstract fabric of sound. ↗

— Terry Riley

#abstract #create #decided #doing #experimentation

... for when a man's spirit has been thoroughly crushed, he may be peevish at small offenses, but never resentful of great ones. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#crushed-spirit #gloom #house-of-the-seven-gables #low #men

I can't wait until I'm able to afford really posh bags. ↗

— Alexandra Roach

#afford #bags #i #posh #really

I think you should just wear something you feel comfortable in. It's important to make a statement, but don't kill yourself over it. ↗

— Alexandra Roach

#feel #i #i think #important #just

Miserable is a good thing, though. If you start the day miserable, nobody else can screw up your day. ↗

— Jake Roberts

#day #else #good #good thing #miserable

With our Reserve and Guard units playing increasingly important roles in the war on terror and in Iraq, it is unacceptable to make them jump through any unnecessary hurdles. ↗

— Pat Roberts

#guard #hurdles #important #important roles #increasingly