#age

Love can be understood only "from the inside," as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it. ↗

— Robert C. Solomon

#language #lives #love #only #someone

The major material advantage, financial advantage from having a reserve currency is that between 200 and 300 billion dollar bills, that may be twenty, fifty, hundred dollar bills as well as ones, exist in the world - a lot of them in Russia as you all know I'm sure. ↗

— Robert C. Solomon

#between #billion #bills #currency #dollar

The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage. ↗

— Maggie Smith

#better #head #much #performances #stage

I don't think the Palestinian people or Afghan children or some other things I'm concerned about are at the top of other people's agendas - not right now, when America is going through such a recession and people are suffering across the board financially. But I think all that will change. ↗

— Patti Smith

#across #afghan #agendas #america #board

I don't find the technology threatening. A lot of people my age, my generation, find it difficult to immerse themselves. But I would never preclude the idea of using any technology if I thought it suited the end result. ↗

— Robert Smith

#any #difficult #end #end result #find

I've got a presence on all the social networks, in fact, but I've never once sent a message. I'm there because otherwise, someone's going to pretend to be me. ↗

— Robert Smith

#fact #going #got #i #in fact

You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet. ↗

— Robert Smith

#drink #eight #flight #go #hour

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#day #deal #effort #every #every day

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#being #calamity #courage #everything #great

In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual. ↗

— William Robertson Smith

#common #dictate #foreign #individual #magical