#cons

Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#conservative #current #despite #ideology #men

It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man. ↗

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

#constitutes #earnest #effort #forward #man

I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious. ↗

— David Letterman

#i #just #make #trying #unconscious

It's a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didn't consult a decorator or he would still be picking colors. ↗

— Sam Levenson

#colors #consult #created #decorator #god

Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation. ↗

— Claude Levi-Strauss

#adult #both #child #consolation #culprit

If that voice that you created that is most alive in the poem isn't carried throughout the whole poem, then I destroy where it's not there, and I reconstruct it so that that voice is the dominant voice in the poem. ↗

— Philip Levine

#carried #created #destroy #dominant #i

My sense of a poem - my notion of how you revise - is: you get yourself into a state where what you are intensely conscious of is not why you wrote it or how you wrote it, but what you wrote. ↗

— Philip Levine

#get #how #intensely #into #notion

I've never seen a constructive Social Security debate that started with one side digging in, in one place and another side digging into another. ↗

— Jacob Lew

#constructive #debate #digging #i #into

Why do you think so many actors are only half-developed people? It's very easy when you're a young actor to have these intense, explosive friendships for short periods of time, because you can control what's shown of you. Then you go on to your next job and reinvent yourself again. I think it's important to find something constant. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#again #because #constant #control #easy

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#constantly #died #excuses #father #great