#ali

Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending. ↗

— Herman Melville

#alike #cracked #dreadfully #head #heaven

There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. ↗

— Herman Melville

#exists #itself #merely #nothing #quality

Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone? ↗

— Herman Melville

#know #nature #never #principal #quality

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#better time #having #immorality #morality #those

Are you trivialising the sisterhood if you dye your hair or have your eyebrows threaded? I'd say the answer to that is no. But equally, it's a perfectly valid feminist thing to say there is a certain amount of attention on a woman's appearance, and I don't wish that to be the focus or a distraction. ↗

— Louise Mensch

#answer #appearance #attention #certain #distraction

The reality is that when three or four networks are at the table with three or four political parties, someone is going to be the victim. ↗

— Rick Mercer

#going #networks #parties #political #political parties

Poetry comes alive to me through recitation. ↗

— Natalie Merchant

#comes #me #poetry #recitation #through

At the beginning of the 60's our country called the foreign workers to come to Germany and now they live in our country. We kidded ourselves a while, we said: 'They won't stay, sometime they will be gone.' But this isn't reality. ↗

— Angela Merkel

#called #come #country #foreign #germany

The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality. ↗

— James A. Michener

#confuse #defeat #dreams #life #permanent

A big part of life is realizing what you're good at. ↗

— Alyssa Milano

#good #life #part #realizing #you