#cap

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey. ↗

— Matthew Prior

#anger #cruel #dart #escape #fantastic

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#incapable #intellectuals #like #many #saying

All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that limited as their capacities were, they were yet able to manufacture them. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#been #call #capacities #drinks #even

I believe in the power of intention to change the landscape of our society - and it is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action. Jamey Rodemeyer's life changed mine. ↗

— Zachary Quinto

#authentic #believe #change #changed #compassion

As I began making my feature films, it was a great adventure. It was about constructing something I saw in my head or I had designed on storyboards and capturing that on film. ↗

— Sam Raimi

#adventure #began #capturing #constructing #designed

Who is better off? The one who writes to revel in the voluptuousness of the life that surrounds them? Or the one who writes to escape the tediousness of that which awaits them outside? Whose flame will last longer? ↗

— Roman Payne

#books #escape #flame #heroic #heroism

For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet. ↗

— Eric S. Raymond

#capable #capacity #comparable #could #development

Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning. ↗

— George Reisman

#capitalism #each #economic #engages #individual

Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#life

Indignation is often the best defense. ↗

— Diane Capri

#funny #justice-series #mystery #suspense #funny