#anti

Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them. ↗

— Carlo Goldoni

#them #use #wanting #wishes

There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library. ↗

— Anthony Hecht

#call #composes #good #his #i

I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is designed with 'you' in mind or, even worse, that there is a divine plan into which one fits whether one knows it or not. This kind of modesty is too arrogant for me. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#arrogance #atheism #modesty #religion #solipsism

There's something I've been wanting to say for a long time. I'm a liberal, and I'm proud of it. In fact, I was probably a little more liberal than Hubert was. I just wanted to say that. ↗

— Muriel Humphrey

#fact #hubert #i #in fact #just

Bush can talk about 100,000 people wanting to go work in the police or in the army. It's because there's nothing else for them to do. They're willing to stand in line to get bombed because they want to take care of their family. ↗

— Seymour Hersh

#army #because #bombed #bush #care

In fact, quantitative findings of any material and energy changes preserve their full context only through their being seen and understood as parts of a natural order. ↗

— Walter Rudolf Hess

#being #changes #context #energy #fact

It wasn't about mechanics; it was about a feeling, wanting to give someone something, which in turn was really gratifying. That really resonated for me. ↗

— Thomas Keller

#feeling #give #gratifying #me #mechanics

The big political news, Arnold Schwarzenegger announced he's running for governor of California, and already, people are chanting, 'Four more vowels, four more vowels.' ↗

— Craig Kilborn

#announced #arnold #arnold schwarzenegger #big #california

If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#frauds #go #intellectual #meet #paris

I'm a dreadful romantic. No matter what I go through in life, I want to fall in love with a man. ↗

— Rachel Hunter

#dreadful #fall #go #i #life