#cleans

Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them. ↗

— Rita Rudner

#build #castles #cleans #live #mother

The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter. ↗

— Meryl Streep

#about #being #cleans #everyone #interesting

Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin. ↗

— Tori Amos

#analyze #begin #bleeding #cleansing #crawl

I put hibiscus flower in every cup of tea I have. It's sweet, sexy, and cleansing. ↗

— Mario Batali

#cup #every #flower #i #put

There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you. ↗

— Woody Hayes

#getting #hell #kicked #like #nothing

It's incredibly fun to play someone that you don't like. It exorcises your own demons in a way. It's cathartic. We all have things that we don't like about ourselves, little things. And I get to amplify those things and put them out there. It's fun and it has a cleansing effect. ↗

— Ed Helms

#amplify #cathartic #cleansing #demons #effect

Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you. ↗

— Langston Hughes

#air #cleanse #cool #earth #like

That war [Bosnian war] in the early 1990s changed a lot for me. I never thought I would see, in Europe, a full-dress reprise of internment camps, the mass murder of civilians, the reinstiutution of torture and rape as acts of policy. And I didn't expect so many of my comrades to be indifferent - or even take the side of the fascists. It was a time when many people on the left were saying 'Don't intervene, we'll only make things worse' or, 'Don't intervene, it might destabilise the region. And I thought - destabilisation of fascist regimes is a good thing. Why should the left care about the stability of undemocratic regimes? Wasn't it a good thing to destabilise the regime of General Franco? It was a time when the left was mostly taking the conservative, status quo position - leave the Balkans alone, leave Milosevic alone, do nothing. And that kind of conservatism can easily mutate into actual support for the aggressors. Weimar-style conservatism can easily mutate into National Socialism. So you had people like Noam Chomsky's co-author Ed Herman go from saying 'Do nothing in the Balkans', to actually supporting Milosevic, the most reactionary force in the region. That's when I began to first find myself on the same side as the neocons. I was signing petitions in favour of action in Bosnia, and I would look down the list of names and I kept finding, there's Richard Perle. There's Paul Wolfowitz. That seemed interesting to me. These people were saying that we had to act. Before, I had avoided them like the plague, especially because of what they said about General Sharon and about Nicaragua. But nobody could say they were interested in oil in the Balkans, or in strategic needs, and the people who tried to say that - like Chomsky - looked ridiculous. So now I was interested. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#bosnia-and-herzegovina #bosnian-war #ethnic-cleansing #genocide #humanitarian-intervention