#elves

Everybody has a cartoon of themselves. Mine is: I write very fast, and I'm ruthlessly efficient with my time. ↗

— David Remnick

#efficient #everybody #fast #i #i write

As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost. ↗

— Ernest Renan

#heroism #imbeciles #lack #lost #maintain

If there are flaws they are in ourselves, and our task therefore must be one not of redesign but of renewal and reaffirmation, especially of the standards in which all of us believe. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

#especially #flaws #must #our #ourselves

It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#fault #faultless #find #much #others

I don't understand that, because I think that what people like most about the show is that they recognize themselves in the characters and their problems, so the more believable the family is, the more we can draw the audience in. ↗

— Patricia Richardson

#audience #because #believable #characters #draw

Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#generally #men #more #than #themselves

Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#made #make #parents #sometimes #themselves

There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#life #others #ourselves #quite #supporting

Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#diverted #jest #least #most #others

Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#lay #least #most #observation #observe