#def

At the age when we are all of us most apt to take our colouring, in the form of a reflection from the colouring of other people, he had been sent abroad, and had been passed on from one nation to another, before there was time for any one colouring more than another to settle itself on him firmly. As a consequence of this, he had come back with so many different sides to his character, all more or less jarring with each other, that he seemed to pass his life in a state of perpetual contradiction with himself. He could be a busy man, and a lazy man; cloudy in the head, and clear in the head; a model of determination, and a spectacle of helplessness, all together. He had his French side, and his German side, and his Italian side--the original English foundation showing through, every now and then, as much as to say, "Here I am, sorely transmogrified, as you see, but there's something of me left at the bottom of him still. ↗

— Wilkie Collins

#age

The curse of men can't make me defiled. I defile myself if I curse men by intention. ↗

— Toba Beta

#defile #heart #unclean #word-of-mouth #men

The Second Amendment is timeless for our Founders grasped that self-defense is three-fold: every free individual must protect themselves against the evil will of the man, the mob and the state. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

#freedom #government-corruption #gun-control #gun-laws #gun-rights

Death, I've dreamed of it, I've desired it, but what real happiness can come from it? ↗

— Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#death #dreams #family #happiness #life

Defeat anger, stop using it as a shield against truth, and you will find the compassion you need to forgive the people you love. ↗

— Glenn Beck

#defense #forgiveness #love #truth #anger

There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove God. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#definition #god #truth #atheist

Tact is just lying for adults. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#draco #draco-series #lie

...give a great deal of attention to keeping his managers and his technical people as interchangeable as their talents allow. The barriers are sociological... To overcome this problem some laboratories, such as Bell Labs, abolish all job titles. Each professional employee is a "member of technical staff. ↗

— Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

#sociology

I will defend anyone as long as the client gives me total control of the case and pays up front. ↗

— Edward Bennett Williams

#case #client #control #defend #front

And the looks on the faces of my countrymenpassive heads bent arms at their trousers everyone guilty of not being their best of not earning their daily bread the kind of docility I had never expected from Americans even after so many years of our decline. Here was the tiredness of failure imposed on a country that believed only in its opposite. Here was the end product of our deep moral exhaustion. ↗

— Gary Shteyngart

#americans #decline #defeat #docility #exhaustion