#ai

No man can become a saint in his sleep. ↗

— Henry Drummond

#his #man #saint #sleep

The last few years have been my happiest. I'm happy in the years that most people are blue and sad and waiting to die. I don't feel that a bit. Smiling has a lot to do with it. You can just lift your spirits by smiling a little bit. ↗

— William Proxmire

#bit #blue #die #feel #few

It is undeniable that a woman's ability to stretch and pursue her total competence outside the home and get paid what she's worth for it makes for happier and more fulfilled women. ↗

— Kyle D. Pruett

#competence #fulfilled #get #happier #her

I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#case #certain #comes #concentrating #difficulty

An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery. ↗

— Joseph Pulitzer

#courage #disinterested #government #intelligence #know

And before I'd got to the end of the first paragraph, I'd come up slap bang against a fundamental problem that still troubles me today whenever I begin a story, and it's this: where am I telling it from? ↗

— Philip Pullman

#am #bang #before #begin #come

For a long time I thought I was a poet, but that's a high title to claim. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#high #i #long #long time #poet

I elect to stay on the soil of which I was born and on the plot of ground which I have fairly bought and honestly paid for. Don't advise me to leave, and don't add insult to injury by telling me it's for my own good; of that I am to be the judge. ↗

— Robert Purvis

#advise #am #born #bought #elect

In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain. ↗

— Pliny the Elder

#certainty #matters #nothing #only #these

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#certain #death #death and taxes #except #nothing