#anti

I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance. ↗

— Gloria Swanson

#full #i #knew #married #nothing

As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation. ↗

— Gloria Swanson

#anticipation #daddy #life #percent #said

I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes. ↗

— Gloria Swanson

#anticipated #avoid #difficulties #i #i always

I don't want to be Mr. Romantic Leading Man. I don't want to be the Dance Dude. I don't want to be the Action Guy. If I had to do any one of those all my life, it'd drive me crazy. ↗

— Patrick Swayze

#any #crazy #dance #drive #dude

The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#basis #character #creating #else #important

Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement. ↗

— Tacitus

#never #substantial #unite #vanquished #victor

Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America. ↗

— William Howard Taft

#anti-semitism #cut #noxious #out #place

Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies. ↗

— William Howard Taft

#better things #developing #evils #new #progress

Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

#gigantic #like #ones #precedes #proportion

But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#also #away #certain #hard #important