#elves

Let me tell you something. Nobody goes to jail unless they want to. Unless they make themselves get caught. They don't have things organized. ↗

— Nicholas Pileggi

#get #goes #jail #make #me

The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future. ↗

— Gifford Pinchot

#future #great #make #only #our

I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#arts #believe #confusion #elite #endeavor

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others. ↗

— Plato

#actions #give #good #good actions #inspire

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others. ↗

— Plato

#done #great #happens #intend #just

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so. ↗

— Plato

#being #content #most #seeking #themselves

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little. ↗

— Plutarch

#little #many #more #overcome #perseverance

Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible? ↗

— Henri Poincare

#infallible #mathematicians #need #themselves

Fashion is killing women's body image of themselves. ↗

— Zac Posen

#body image #fashion #image #killing #themselves

I've said this before, that, when you're in school and you're the class clown, men are really good at making fun at other people and women are really good at making fun of themselves. ↗

— Amy Poehler

#class #class clown #clown #fun #good