#emo

The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience - there and then gone. ↗

— Bill Moyers

#commitment #conveys #emotion #existential #experience

In Afghanistan, there is a plan to build democracy; hundreds of thousands of troops are protecting it. There is a plan to rebuild and reconstruct there. But many thousands of Americans die from violence and poverty every year and we don't have a plan for reconstruction at home. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#build #democracy #die #every #home

I would far rather feel remorse than know how to define it. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

#far #feel #how #i #know

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#ask #country #fellow #fellow americans #you

Shouldn't Democrats insist that Sen. Durbin step down as their whip, the number two man in their leadership? ↗

— Bill Kristol

#down #durbin #insist #leadership #man

I voted Republican this year; the Democrats left a bad taste in my mouth. ↗

— Monica Lewinsky

#bad taste #democrats #i #left #mouth

The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#emotion #joy #thought #wholly #writer

After reading Eminem's autobiography, which I did because I'm so interested in him as an artist, I respect him a lot. Even though he seems angry and mad, he's had to fight so many demons in his life. ↗

— Taryn Manning

#angry #artist #autobiography #because #demons

Jay-Z is like a rap-savant, he doesn't have to write the rhymes down, he can create complex raps in his head. I mean he does memorize it, he just doesn't write it down on paper. He doesn't freestyle onto the track, it's all thought out. ↗

— Ice T

#create #does #down #freestyle #head

One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling. ↗

— William James

#both sides #bring #closer #communion #demon