#erm

The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian. ↗

— Billy Wilder

#beethoven #believe #brilliant #german #hitler

In practical terms the South Pointing Chariot was a simple direction finder. It could have been made to point in any direction - north, south, east or west. ↗

— Kit Williams

#been #chariot #could #direction #east

I have had to come to terms with wearing glasses. ↗

— Lucinda Williams

#glasses #had #i #terms #wearing

But if we had to trade with a Europe dominated by the present German trade policies, we might have to change our methods to some totalitarian form. This is a prospect that any lover of democracy must view with consternation. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#change #consternation #democracy #dominated #europe

In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature. ↗

— Patrick White

#enjoyed #especially #every #fact #french

Furthermore, the spirit of enterprise which had its first intellectual development in England has especially flourished here as well as throughout all of Canada, while the same spirit has become less virile in the land of its origin. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

#canada #development #england #enterprise #especially

Every time I've had a bad performance at an event, I've come back more determined and focused. ↗

— Shaun White

#bad #bad performance #come #determined #event

Judgement is the forbidden objectivization of the other person which destroys single-minded love. I am not forbidden to have my own thoughts about the other person, to realize his shortcomings, but only to the extent that it offers to me an occasion for forgiveness and unconditional love, as Jesus proves to me. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#discipleship #sermon-on-the-mount #forgiveness

My mother wanted to name me Jackie or Jacqueline but she got to name my sister and my brother, so my dad and my brother insisted on naming me. And they were big fans of 'The Little Mermaid.' ↗

— Ariel Winter

#brother #dad #fans #got #insisted

In the voyeurism of Reality TV, the viewer's passivity is kept intact, pampered and massaged and force-fed Chicken McNuggets of carefully edited snippets that permit him or her to sit in easy judgment and feel superior at watching familiar strangers make fools of themselves. Reality TV looks in only one direction: down. ↗

— James Wolcott

#chicken #direction #down #easy #edited