#eve

When I was young I had a moment of believing in the Communist doctrine. I wanted to save the world through Communism. Quite soon I understood that it doesn't work, but I've never pretended it didn't happen to me. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#communism #communist #doctrine #had #happen

I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me. ↗

— Aaron Taylor-Johnson

#always #back-up #ever #had #i

I started rapping before anybody had ever bought a car from it. It was truly about the art form and the culture, more so than now, where it's a successful way to make money. Back then you had to be doing it because you liked it. ↗

— Ice T

#anybody #art #art form #back #because

All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure. ↗

— Alberto Giacometti

#equal #ever #failure #faint #i

The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise. ↗

— Tacitus

#desire #enterprise #every #great #noble

All I ever wanted to be was president of the American League. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#american league #ever #i #league #president

No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor. ↗

— Tacitus

#been #doubted #emperor #had #his

Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular; and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He he glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal. ↗

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

#been #blessed #everyone #forbidden #general

The deed is everything, the glory is naught. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#everything #glory #naught

The art music of the West has developed through out its history by means of individual geniuses, and out of the soil supporting them; non-Western musicians were born, and grew like the grasses of the field. ↗

— Toru Takemitsu

#born #developed #field #geniuses #grasses