#cult

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly. ↗

— Pythagoras

#difficult #easy #nothing #reluctantly #you

As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of a poet is always a threat to the existing cultural order, because he attempts to break through the circle of literary castes to reach the center. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#always #attempts #because #birth #break

The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#been #between #cultures #evident #generally

People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite. ↗

— Dan Quayle

#bowlers #cultural #elite #people #vote

God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech. ↗

— Quintilian

#architect #character #creator #distinguish #faculty

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty. ↗

— Quintilian

#excuse #our #pretext #sloth #under

To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination. ↗

— Quintilian

#boy #critical #develops #faculty #gives

Again, as a gay man I look at that and say there's a hopelessness that surrounds it, but as a human being I look at it and say 'Why? Where's this disparity coming from, and why can't we as a culture and society dig deeper to examine that?' We're terrified of facing ourselves. ↗

— Zachary Quinto

#being #coming #culture #deeper #dig

My desire to be valued is manifested in cultivating relationships with my friends and family. ↗

— Zachary Quinto

#desire #family #friends #friends and family #manifested

We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government. ↗

— Zachary Quinto

#government #great #our #precipice #transformation