#con

Sadly, we do a much better job of making people feel guilty than we do of delivering them from the guilt we create. We need to confess this and change our ways. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#better job #change #confess #create #delivering

His attention caught, her companion raised his eyes from the book which lay open beside him on the table and directed them upon her in a look of aloof enquiry. 'What's that? Did you say something to me, Venetia?' 'Yes, love,' responded his sister cheerfully, 'but it wasn't of the least consequence, and in any event I answered for you. You would be astonished, I daresay, if you knew what interesting conversations I enjoy with myself. ↗

— Georgette Heyer

#intelligent-conversation #intelligence

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium. ↗

— Albert Camus

#barbarous #because #been #centuries #check

Was it possible that perhaps the most plausible explanation was being offered by someone who anyone with an ounce of sanity would have long ago consigned to the realm of the insane? ↗

— Tim Horvath

#insanity #intelligence #intelligence

We now consider as fundamental economic functions of the state, many duties that were left a generation ago to chance. ↗

— Arthur Capper

#chance #consider #duties #economic #functions

The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#choice #control #created #every #god

After I finished 'E.R.', I wanted to concentrate on re-examining what kind of actress I am and taking time for real-life things. ↗

— Linda Cardellini

#after #am #concentrate #finished #i

Like my colleague, I represent a large Assyrian community in central California, one of the largest concentrations of Assyrian Americans anywhere in the United States. ↗

— Dennis Cardoza

#california #central #colleague #community #concentrations

A novel points out that the world consists entirely of exceptions. ↗

— Joyce Carey

#entirely #exceptions #novel #out #points

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves. ↗

— Elias Canetti

#child #children #consider #deceiving #deception