#all

No matter what you do, someone always knew you would. ↗

— Ami McKay

#small-town #truth #wisdom #birth

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy. ↗

— Matt Taibbi

#democracy #elections #government #greed #wall-street

I feel a sense of responsibility," said Jordan. "And where is this feeling located? In your pants, perhaps? ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#isabelle-lightwood #jordan-kyle #responsibility

Fool! The Ideal is in thyself, the impediment too is in thyself: thy Condition is but the stuff thou art to shape that same Ideal out of: what matters whether such stuff be of this sort or that, so the Form thou give it be heroic, be poetic? O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create, know this of a truth: the thing thou seekest is already with thee, ‘here or nowhere,’ couldst thou only see! ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#motivational #wake-up-call #art

In the case of Elektra I really wasn't sure I could pull it off. There were so many intellectual leaps. My character, Stick, is blind, but he can see better than most people. So I had trouble kind of finding the logic. ↗

— Terence Stamp

#blind #case #character #could #elektra

Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#salem-falls #truth #words #ignorance

Money is the great tool through whose means labor and skill become universally co-operative. ↗

— Leland Stanford

#co-operative #great #labor #means #money

The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows ↗

— Stephen King

#mind #stephen-king #spirit

The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#fly #higher #lower #you

Simon stepped between them. “I’m not going to let you fight with each other.” “And what are you going to do about it if . . . Oh.” Jace's gaze trailed up to Simon’s forehead, and he grinned reluctantly. “ So basically you’re threatening to turn me into something you can sprinkle on popcorn if I don’t do what you say? ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-fallen-angels #jace-lightwood #mortal-instruments #simon-lewis #fighting