#cap

One travels to escape from it all, but that is the great illusion: It cannot be done, since one travels with one's mind. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#done #escape #great #illusion #mind

That idea of escapism... these words could sum up my life. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#escapism #idea #life #my life #sum

Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes - waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain. ↗

— Mako

#artist #been #capable #combat #course

Washington is gripped by crab-in-the-bucket syndrome. And there's no cure in sight. Put a single crab in an uncovered bucket, and it will find a way to climb up and out on its own. Put a dozen crabs in a bucket, and 11 will fight with all their might to pull down the striver who attempts escape. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#bucket #climb #crab #crabs #cure

Environmentalists hate sprawl - except when it comes to the size of their expansive pet legislation on Capitol Hill. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#capitol hill #comes #environmentalists #except #expansive

Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost. ↗

— David Mamet

#cannot #capacity #cost #demonstrated #destruction

Workers do not strike every day, they cannot do that the way they function in the capitalist economy. The way they have to live by selling their labor power makes that impossible. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

#capitalist #day #economy #every #every day

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#found #less #life #living #passion

In general, everyone wants to work and work more. But in fact, when a young generation has sufficient capability then we should create conditions for them to work. ↗

— Nong Duc Manh

#conditions #create #everyone #fact #general

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming. ↗

— Katherine Mansfield

#becoming #capable #i #i am #myself