#damen

Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates. ↗

— Mordecai Richler

#brief #creates #dying #flicker #frustration

Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art. ↗

— Dante Gabriel Rossetti

#boy #brain #conception #difference #fundamental

Motherhood changed me because it is so fundamental what you're doing for another person. And you are able to do even though it takes a lot. ↗

— Meg Ryan

#another #because #changed #doing #even

The claim that the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked because fundamentalists hate our prosperity and freedom is a ridiculous lie. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#because #center #claim #freedom #fundamentalists

The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire. ↗

— Joseph Sobran

#empire #fundamental #fundamental purpose #government #most

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#concentrated #fact #find #fundamental #ideas

No, I always felt that amongst my core fans- because there was a level of popularity that I had in the mid '80s that was sort of a bump on the scale- they fundamentally understood the values that are at work in my work. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#amongst #because #bump #core #felt

Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts. ↗

— Joseph Stalin

#antagonism #between #divided #division #exploited

The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under commercial pressure, perhaps, into a different kind of purpose, which is to divert and distract and entertain. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#being #commercial #different #different kind #distract

Being gay is a fundamental part of my being - the core of who I've always been, and the thing that I had repressed and run from all my life. ↗

— James McGreevey

#been #being #core #fundamental #gay