#anger

I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America's role as a light among nations. But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered if we lose this war. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#among #democrat #domination #endangered #government

The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates us from reality like a fog. ↗

— Alexis Carrel

#dangerous #fog #laboratories #lecture #libraries

The money can be a hindrance to someone like me because the danger is that you start thinking, 'Is that a $20 million take?' That kind of thing, and being self-critical. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#being #danger #hindrance #kind #like

I write about what interests me. It's very dangerous when you try to satisfy an audience. ↗

— Jonathan Carroll

#audience #dangerous #i #i write #interests

Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison. ↗

— Angela Carter

#ancient greeks #cinema #dark #dream #dreaming

When I was in China, Mao was Chairman, and parents were terrified to tell their children anything that differed from the party line in case the children repeated it and endangered the whole family. ↗

— Jung Chang

#case #chairman #children #china #differed

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#always #disguised #doubts #god #himself

It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement as to the object of the war. ↗

— Richard Cobden

#any #arguing #been #difficulties #doors

Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder. ↗

— Paul Valery

#dangers #disorder #order #threaten #two

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger. ↗

— Billy Connolly

#definition #intellectual #listen #lone #lone ranger