#dom

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk. ↗

— Doug Larson

#get #lifetime #listening #preferred #reward

He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero. ↗

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

#dumb #genius #hero #seldom #speaks

If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director. ↗

— Patrice Leconte

#director #film #freedom #gives #very

I'm saying the federal government is taking away the freedom of Americans to make choices. ↗

— Paul LePage

#choices #federal #federal government #freedom #government

Regrets are the last words you speak to your loved ones when you die and the one thing we all fear when we live. I'd rather regret the things I've done and said than regret the things I haven't done or said. It is all the experiences and people you missed out on in life that you will feel the most regretful for in the end. God will forgive you of your mistakes, but there is nothing to forgive if you have never even tried, done or said anything that made a difference in your life or others. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#experiences #freedom-of-speech #life #openness #regret

I don’t want to know what time it is. I don’t want to know what day it is or where I am. None of that matters. ↗

— Jon Krakauer

#into-the-wild #freedom

Why am I a socialist? Simple: Because I believe in freedom. ↗

— Michel Templet

#politics #socialism #freedom

Washington's all abstraction. It's about access to power and nothing else. I mean, I'm sure it's fun if you're living next door to Seinfeld, or To Wolfe, or Mike Bloomberg, but living next door to them isn't what New York is about, In Washington people literally talk about how many feet away from John Kerry's house their own house is. The neighborhoods are all so blah, the only thing that turns people on is proximity to power. It's a total fetish culture. People get this kind of orgasmic shiver when they tell you they sat next to Paul Wolfowitz at a conference or got invited to Grover Norquist's breakfast. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#freedom #humor #washington #freedom

Hatred. Something almost as physical as walls, pianos, or nurses. She could almost touch the destructive energy leaking out of her body. She allowed the feeling to emerge, regardless of whether it was good or bad; she was sick of self-control, of masks, of appropriate behavior. Veronika wanted to spend her remaining two or three days of life behaving as inappropriately as she could. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#hatred #freedom

People are like animals. Some are happiest penned in, some need to roam free. You go to recognize what's in her nature and accept it. ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#freedom #lifestyle #people #freedom