#above

The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#above #apart #flaws #gets #great

The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world. ↗

— Max Weber

#characterized #disenchantment #fate #our #times

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#above #been #bosses #democracy #designed

About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea and the water is yellow with the mud of half a continent. Where the sun strikes it, it is golden. ↗

— Frank Yerby

#above #almost #broadened #continent #fifteen

Rise above yourself. ↗

— Thomas Leonard

#rise #rise above #yourself

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but your words...they'll destroy my soul. ↗

— Cassandra Giovanni

#bullying #love-story #rising-above #romance #love

The time has come for all good men to rise above principle. ↗

— Huey Long

#come #good #good men #men #principle

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here. ↗

— Golda Meir

#being #country #get #here #him

Equal and united people can above all become a part of the civilization toward which mankind is moving. If we cannot be at the head of the column leading to such a civilization, there is certainly no need for us to be at is tail. ↗

— Slobodan Milosevic

#become #cannot #certainly #civilization #column

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#abyss #between #brief #common #common sense