#cons

If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides. ↗

— Robert Quillen

#accurately #anything #attention #called #chiefly

No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence. ↗

— Yitzhak Rabin

#achieving #arab #consider #idea #long

Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else and failing. ↗

— Raymond Radiguet

#else #everybody #everybody else #failing #like

He was one of those who are driven early in life into too conservative an attitude by the bewildering folly of most revolutionists. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#reactionaries #attitude

How do you know, right now, that you are aware of being aware, or conscious? ↗

— Henry Reed

#being #conscious #do you know #how #know

In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women. ↗

— Theodor Reik

#civilization #considered #enough #men #might

Russian is such a tough and complex language that I am happy enough to understand everything and read most things pretty well, but, without constant practice, my speech is not what I wish it was, and I would sooner write in crayon than write a letter in Russian. ↗

— David Remnick

#complex #constant #enough #everything #happy

It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice. ↗

— Jose Rizal

#becoming #consecrated #edifice #field #great

I mean it's - it is hard to find a voice on talk radio that is not a conservative voice. ↗

— Cokie Roberts

#find #hard #i #mean #radio

I went to a large consolidated school in Appalachia. And I wrote the story when I was in the second grade and I took it up to the third floor to the school newspaper office that was written and edited by juniors and seniors. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#edited #floor #grade #i #juniors