#cause

Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bone - you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time. ↗

— Dave Van Ronk

#because #bone #cruelest #feel #game

You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work. ↗

— Dave Van Ronk

#because #either #failure #gets #success

Obscenities... I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can't think of what they want to say and they're frustrated. A lot of smart people do it to pretend they aren't very smart - want to be just one of the boys. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#dumb #dumb people #frustrated #i #i think

The Super Bowl isn't for kids, I had a great time though and it was worth every nickel of it because by doing this lame piece about the game I can put it on my expense account. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#account #because #bowl #doing #every

The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#army #average #because #bright #business

I've learnt that it is important not to go over the top with aggression, because then either you are going to miss a lot of games, or you are not going to be concentrating on the game you are playing. ↗

— Wayne Rooney

#because #concentrating #either #game #games

The law of the survival of the fittest led inevitably to the survival and predominance of the men who were effective in war and who loved it because they were effective. ↗

— Elihu Root

#effective #fittest #inevitably #law #led

The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify. ↗

— Elihu Root

#aim #argument #causes #conduct #creating

People are on their computers more than watching TV, because you can only watch voyeur TV, which is basically what reality shows are, for so long. ↗

— Stephen Root

#because #computers #long #more #only

Well, I think probably when I first got in the business, I wasn't thinking of being strictly a character actor. But I knew I wanted to be a working actor, and as the years have gone on, I just naturally evolved into that. Because, y'know, I'm not a leading guy. Never was. ↗

— Stephen Root

#because #being #business #character #character actor