#come

Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

#action #again #always #become #democracy

The world has become one big grassy knoll, crawling with lone gunmen who think they're the Warren Commission. ↗

— Ken MacLeod

#big #commission #crawling #lone #think

The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#estate #fourth #gallery #realm #reporters

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#among #comes #every #fact #grief

Now, everybody, I suppose, is aware that in recent years the silly business of divination by dreams has ceased to be a joke and has become a very serious science. ↗

— Arthur Machen

#become #business #ceased #dreams #everybody

Comedy is so hard; it's so much harder than drama. The pacing of it, the energy of it. ↗

— Josh Lucas

#drama #energy #hard #harder #much

A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense at all. ↗

— F. L. Lucas

#down #even #himself #make #man

The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side. ↗

— George Lucas

#before #brink #come #doing #give

My instincts are not comedic. ↗

— Josh Lucas

#instincts

I mean comedy is something that's very personal and people have strong opinions about. ↗

— Matt Lucas

#comedy #i #mean #opinions #people