#elves

Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others. ↗

— Beatrice Webb

#bring #classes #fact #great #individuals

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves. ↗

— Simone Weil

#bear #degradation #hurtful #others #ourselves

The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at. ↗

— Simone Weil

#aiming #already #as far as #between #brought

Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves. ↗

— Rebecca West

#believe #each #even #everyone #less

When Talking Heads started, we called ourselves Thinking Man's Dance Music. ↗

— Tina Weymouth

#dance #dance music #heads #man #music

Government or politics in America today is big business. Everybody makes money involving themselves in one way or the other, whether it's pollsters, whether they are policy wonks, whether they are pundits, whether they are those who believe that they must call it as they see it and then to be fair about it. ↗

— Douglas Wilder

#america #believe #big #big business #business

None are so empty as those who are full of themselves. ↗

— Benjamin Whichcote

#full #none #themselves #those #who

There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves. ↗

— Cliff Fadiman

#great #great ones #kinds #ones #only

Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire. ↗

— George Edward Woodberry

#because #boss #corollary #first #flat

I don't know what 15-year-old doesn't have a desire to separate themselves from their parents and prove their independence. ↗

— Michelle Williams

#i #independence #know #parents #prove