#elves

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

Ours is the old, old story of every uprising race or class or order. The work of elevation must be wrought by ourselves or not at all. ↗

— Frances Power Cobbe

#elevation #every #must #old #old story

It's getting harder and harder to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone. It still brings me up short to walk by somebody who appears to be talking to themselves. ↗

— Bob Newhart

#between #brings #cell #cell phone #differentiate

Many have puzzled themselves about the origin of evil. I am content to observe that there is evil, and that there is a way to escape from it, and with this I begin and end. ↗

— John Newton

#am #begin #content #end #escape

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#be true #come #concerning #consideration #into

If the parties would brand themselves the way Coke and Pepsi and other products do so that you knew what you were buying, it had quality control. I vote for the Republican. He or she will not raise my taxes. I'll buy one. I'll take that one home. ↗

— Grover Norquist

#buy #buying #coke #control #had

I would have loved to have met some former spies, but they don't readily advertise themselves unless they're not living in Moscow, and even then. I'm sure I've met some without realizing it. ↗

— Jeremy Northam

#even #former #i #living #loved

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. ↗

— Henri Nouwen

#advice #ask #chosen #cures #find

We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend. ↗

— Novalis

#comprehend #far #more #never #ourselves

We asserted ourselves as a music community, and showed legislators that music is positive. Especially if you've sold 300 million records worldwide and pay taxes. ↗

— Krist Novoselic

#community #especially #legislators #million #music