#ems

For me, it seems to help me take the pressure off if I don't pay attention to what other people are telling me. ↗

— Missy Franklin

#help #i #me #off #other

If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer. ↗

— Clement Freud

#drinking #give #just #live #longer

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise. ↗

— Robert Fritz

#compromise #disconnect #left #limit #only

People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#believe #charms #contemplating #faults #flatter

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday. ↗

— Dennis Gabor

#archetypal #damages #evils #important #longer

The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#before #brighter #just #made #seems

It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, shrunk from it with a sort of ghostly fear, while, at the same time drawn to it by force of its hypnotic attraction. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#attraction #beauty #curious #drawn #evil

There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people. ↗

— George Galloway

#flags #fooling #means #patriotism #people

A god whose creation is so imperfect that he must be continually adjusting it to make it work properly seems to me a god of relatively low order, hardly worthy of any worship. ↗

— Martin Gardner

#any #continually #creation #god #hardly

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers. ↗

— Horace

#drinkers #live #long #please #poems