#adam

I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty. ↗

— Mark Twain

#inspirational #intellect #morality #inspirational

The world is full of stupid people. That's why we have rules. But with enough intelligence, a person can be above the rules. She can make rules. ↗

— Daniel Nayeri

#madame-vileroy #rules #intelligence

Unless the Labour leadership candidates decide to settle the issue through televised mud-wrestling (Adam Boulton, I think, for referee, and he may even take part) they will find it hard to gain massive attention for their utterances. Nor would the wannabes be wise to sign up to Lord Adonis's optimistic gloom about the coalition not lasting. Watching David Laws this week going about deficit reduction with an avidity bordering on the erotic, I realised that there are very good reasons why the centre should hold. ↗

— David Aaronovitch

#david-laws #labour-party #leadership

We're not obsessed by anything, you see," insisted Ford. "..." "And that's the deciding factor. We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win." "I care about lots of things," said Slartibartfast, his voice trembling partly with annoyance, but partly also with uncertainty. "Such as?" "Well," said the old man, "life, the Universe. Everything, really. Fjords." "Would you die for them?" "Fjords?" blinked Slartibartfast in surprise. "No." "Well then." "Wouldn't see the point, to be honest. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#irony #sci-fi #life

I love you. It hurts more than anything ever has, but I do. So don't you dare tell me I don't. Don't you ever say it again! ↗

— Jenny Downham

#love #love

That slow smile again. I love that smile! DId I think he was ugly just now? No, his face is transformed. ↗

— Jenny Downham

#before-i-die #jenny-downham #tessa #love

The smooth folds of her dress concealed a tumultuous heart, and her modest lips told nothing of her torment. She was in love. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#love #madame-bovary #quotes #love

The world is a glorious place, and filled with so many unexpected moments that I'd get lumps in my throat, as though I were watching a bride walk down the aisle - moments as eternal and full of love as the lifting of veils, the saying of vows and the moment of the first wedded kiss. ↗

— Douglas Coupland

#life #love #wedding #love

Anyway, the apple is essential. How come these hens don't get it? They go to church year after year, they read the Bible, or at least keep it on their bedside table, and then they forget how the first seduction of the first man occured? With an apple, that's how. No man can resist a woman who has an apple in her hand. Its theological. A woman with an apple in her hand is the first woman, the only woman in the world, and he's the first man -he stumbles on love and he can't shake it, never ever ever. ↗

— Pia Pera

#love

Its the fate of all creators: They fall in love with their creations. ↗

— Michael Grant

#eve #science #terra #love