#chi

I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness. ↗

— David Remnick

#achievements #bitterness #everything #gorbachev #him

I always was trying to make people laugh as a kid. I was a big fan of Carol Burnett and Gilda Radner. I watched them and I remember feeling as a child, when I heard the laughter they got, a little jealous that they made someone laugh like that. ↗

— Leah Remini

#big #big fan #burnett #carol #carol burnett

If the story is good enough, if it's imaginative enough, if it's moving enough it is going to reach deeper than the level of sheer information and change somebody's life two degrees. That is an enormous achievement. ↗

— David Remnick

#change #deeper #degrees #enormous #enough

The marvelous thing is that for thousands of years people have continued questioning and searching and ultimately concluding that reasons for certain occurrences are not given to man to know. ↗

— Robert Vaughn

#concluding #continued #given #know #man

A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there. ↗

— Agnes Repplier

#about #before #chiefly #generally #gets

You give up your childhood. You miss proms and games and high-school events, and people say it's awful... I say it was a good trade. You miss something but I think I gained more than I lost. ↗

— Mary Lou Retton

#childhood #events #gained #games #give

I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature. ↗

— Herbert Read

#anarchism #any #basis #claim #direct

The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists. ↗

— Herbert Read

#artists #civilization #culture #individuals #material

A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them. ↗

— Herbert Read

#character #formulate #ideals #man #only

I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and had the hand come under the stall with a paper and pen. That sort of thing anybody can live without. ↗

— Helen Reddy

#bathroom #been #children #come #conversation