#eli

They played so good it was frightening. And I, of course, being young, was in awe of everything that was going on and rightly so. I mean, it was too good to believe. ↗

— Ray Brown

#being #believe #course #everything #frightening

I feel too much. It's like being drummed to death from within. You know? ↗

— Julianna Baggott

#death

I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said. ↗

— William F. Buckley, Jr.

#i #insult #intelligence #just #really

You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat's meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#religion #intelligence

I believe the things that happened to me as a child scarred me terribly, and I wish somebody would have helped me with some of the things that happened. ↗

— Scott Thompson

#child #happened #helped #i #i believe

You look at the pillars of the state: politics, the media, police, lawyers - they've all got their formal role, and then nestling above that is that power elite who are networked in through soft, social links, that are actually running the show. Why didn't I know that 10 years ago, and why didn't I rail against it? Why did I become part of it? ↗

— Tom A. Watson

#actually #against #ago #become #did

This was a report from a single source. It was an established and reliable line of reporting. It was quoted from a senior Iraqi military officer in a position to know this information. ↗

— John Scarlett

#information #iraqi #know #line #military

There are all kinds of ways that people present their films, but that's kind of a good feeling, if you can make it seem like the characters are really there. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#feeling #films #good #good feeling #kind

Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart. ↗

— Anne Frank

#believe #despite #everything #heart #i

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#admire #beauty #creator #expands #i