#ass

I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#english #film #generally #i #i think

Once you became associated with a children's show, you're finished. ↗

— Alexis Korner

#became #children #finished #once #show

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes. ↗

— James Madison

#any #apt #classes #fill #good

Condemnation feels good and it is now a staple of religion, politics, and the media (both left and right), but it changes nothing. Compassion, on the other hand, changes everything. (p. 121) ↗

— Robin R. Meyers

#condemnation #politics #change

The traditional religious right's failure to restore public-school prayer or pass an antiabortion constitutional amendment has likely helped fuel the spread of the more extreme dominionist school. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#constitutional #constitutional amendment #extreme #failure #fuel

We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#little #lives #moments #other #passing

The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive. ↗

— V. S. Pritchett

#assertive #canadian #cautious #critical #observant

My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size... has ever surpassed my courage. ↗

— Peter Paul Rubens

#ever #however #size #such #surpassed

In the streets through which we passed, I must own the houses in general struck me as if they were dark and gloomy, and yet at the same time they also struck me as prodigiously great and majestic. ↗

— Karl Philipp Moritz

#dark #general #gloomy #great #houses

The women who pass away before they receive Social Security, for them this is nothing but a tax from which they or their family will never receive a benefit. ↗

— Ginny B. Waite

#before #benefit #family #never #nothing