#elves

We are at crisis point. I think anybody that sees this nation as being on stable economic or fiscal ground is fooling themselves. ↗

— Joe Miller

#being #crisis #economic #fiscal #fooling

Argumentative exhibitions bring issues to life in a way that very much irritates traditional curators who want to see their pictures valued for themselves. ↗

— Jonathan Miller

#exhibitions #irritates #issues #life #much

Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly. ↗

— Rebecca Miller

#because #become #every #film-making #funny

In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism. ↗

— George J. Mitchell

#attributes #criticism #every #getting #greater

I didn't want to make it a lifetime thing. I don't believe in statutory term limits, but people can limit themselves if they want to, and that's what I decided to do. ↗

— George J. Mitchell

#decided #i #lifetime #limit #limits

There comes a point in many people's lives when they can no longer play the role they have chosen for themselves. When that happens, we are like actors finding that someone has changed the play. ↗

— Brian Moore

#chosen #comes #finding #happens #like

What I find very attractive, what I find sexual, are people who are unapologetic for who they are and comfortable with themselves. And I think with those two things sexual energy does come out because you're not hovering or censoring yourself, you're just being who you are. And being who you are is a very attractive quality in a person. ↗

— Katherine Moennig

#because #being #censoring #come #comfortable

From several of the Indian tribes inhabiting the country bordering on Lake Erie purchases have been made of lands on conditions very favorable to the United States, and, as it is presumed, not less so to the tribes themselves. ↗

— James Monroe

#bordering #conditions #country #erie #favorable

The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#egos #into #more #our #ourselves

There's nothing wrong with having a desire to want nice things. It's when we place that as a measure of the value of ourselves that it goes askew. ↗

— Demi Moore

#goes #having #measure #nice #nice things