#charge

Life is an act—most of it, anyway. Get out there today and pretend you’re in charge, for goodness’ sake. Do you hear me? Lift up your head and pretend.” A flicker of a smile passed over her face. “It’s the secret to everything. ↗

— Kate Alcott

#life #pretend #secret-of-life #life

Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters. ↗

— Jacques Lacan

#charge #checks #flying #insane #leaves

Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus. ↗

— Lactantius

#appear #athenians #charge #committed #favour

Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#enforcing #god #indigestion #morality #stomach

Dick Mills was in charge of sound effects and all the rest then, and he put the voice through a ring modulator or whatever gizmos he'd got at the time to make it sound a little more electronic. ↗

— John Leeson

#effects #electronic #gizmos #got #little

In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than are Black men. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#black #charge #discussions #easily #faculty

I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive. ↗

— Konrad Lorenz

#believe #civilized #civilized man #day #discharge

If we could just find out who's in charge, we could kill him. ↗

— George Carlin

#could #find #him #just #kill

Shooting is nothing. Anybody can shoot. The big charge is putting on a show for the crowd. ↗

— Pete Maravich

#big #charge #crowd #nothing #putting

By their own admission, leaders of the Republican Revolution of 1994 think their greatest mistake was overlooking the power of the veto. They gave the impression they were somehow in charge when they weren't. ↗

— Mitch McConnell

#charge #gave #greatest #impression #leaders