#eli

I've always kind of ripped from real life to some degree or at least how I'm feeling in the moment. ↗

— Kevin Smith

#degree #feeling #how #i #kind

We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#anyone #believe #department #expected #freedom

Collective states are constitutionally incapable of reliably producing anything but corpses. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#collective #constitutionally #corpses #incapable #producing

To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open. ↗

— Lillian Smith

#future #leave #lives #only #open

The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#average #believe #customers #doing #eighty

The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome. ↗

— Lillian Smith

#cannot #concealed #defect #lack #ought

To business that we love we rise bedtime, and go to't with delight. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#business #delight #go #love #rise

When we lost, I couldn't sleep at night. When we win, I can't sleep at night. But, when you win, you wake up feeling better. ↗

— Joe Torre

#feeling #i #lost #night #sleep

I don't believe in singing lessons. You can sing or you can't. ↗

— Harry Dean Stanton

#i #lessons #sing #singing #singing lessons

Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is in the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence. ↗

— Benjamin Spock

#confidence #destiny #drive #feeling #gets