#act

You have to accept the fact that part of the sizzle of sex comes from the danger of sex. You can be overpowered. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#comes #danger #fact #part #sex

Character is much easier kept than recovered. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#easier #kept #much #recovered #than

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#character #god #know #men #men and women

There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#act #bolt #called #classes #distinct

I'm aware of the fact that a lot of talented people out there will never get this chance. ↗

— Brad Paisley

#chance #fact #get #i #lot

People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#big #cleaned #distractions #dramas #fixed

I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances; they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#characters #circumstances #drama #engage #enlightened

I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#breathing #fact #feel #feel good #funeral

I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is sorta in the eye of the beholder. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#any #behavior #beholder #enlightenment #eye

I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#always #conventional way #get #heartbreaking #i