#eater

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set. ↗

— Adlai Stevenson

#another #car #dreams #even #freedom

The knights of the theater represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession was held. To find myself, to my astonishment, in that company is the grandest thing that has professionally happened to me. ↗

— Patrick Stewart

#company #esteem #find #grandest #happened

Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them. ↗

— David Ogden Stiers

#concert hall #disappointment #hall #kids #now

The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

#earth #governments #greater #hereditary #independent

The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor. ↗

— Josiah Strong

#elsewhere #greater #poor #poorer #poverty

We in the industrialized world make a greater difference because our ecological footprint, our impact on the condition of the environment, is 40 to 50 times larger than that of people in the developing world. ↗

— Maurice Strong

#condition #developing #developing world #difference #ecological

I confidently affirm that the greater part of those who are supposed to have died of gout, have died of the medicine rather than the disease - a statement in which I am supported by observation. ↗

— Thomas Sydenham

#am #confidently #died #disease #gout

In a theater, the part is mine and I can control it as I want to. In the movies, I don't have direct contact, and I am fighting technical machinery. ↗

— Max von Sydow

#contact #control #direct #direct contact #fighting

Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It's about something greater. It's about acceptance. ↗

— Charlize Theron

#acceptance #equality #greater #just #marriage

We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater. ↗

— Les Aspin

#damage #done #forces #iraqi #iraqi forces