#erm

England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#determined #drawing #england #gutter #keep

I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#hermit #i #i do #impression #know

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. ↗

— Jack London

#atom #dust #every #glow #i

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see. ↗

— Martin Luther

#ourselves #permitting #see #seized #things

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#german #history #ideas #intellectual #intellectual life

I think when money starts to corrupt journalism, it undermines the journalism, and it undermines the credibility of the product, and you end up not succeeding. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#credibility #end #i #i think #journalism

Anybody who spends time off of Louisiana's shores can recognize that these oysters are not endangered. To classify them as such risks great harm to not only fishermen who make their living collecting oysters in the Gulf, but also to Louisiana's economy in total. ↗

— Bobby Jindal

#anybody #classify #collecting #economy #endangered

As everyone in Louisiana knows, there was often no communication or coordination between the state and federal government in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. ↗

— Bobby Jindal

#between #communication #coordination #everyone #federal

Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else. ↗

— Mencius

#another time #becomes #else #evil #exists

Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#attain #commonly #easier #excellence #gained